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From America's revolutionary period to the Civil War and Reconstruction, this text uncovers the strategies black writers used to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to a white audience.

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Not to be missed: From Phillis Wheatley to the works of other forerunners of modern black authors, this book traces an unusual history of pioneering black literary achievers. The MidWest Book Review Reviewing We Wear the Mask seven years after it was first published, one is inevitably struck both by how well its argument and individual readings have held up. -- Vince Carreta, University of Maryland Eighteenth Century Book Reviews Online

We Wear the Mask

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/11/1997
      ISBN13: 9780231080941, 978-0231080941
      ISBN10: 0231080948

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From America's revolutionary period to the Civil War and Reconstruction, this text uncovers the strategies black writers used to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to a white audience.

      Trade Review
      Not to be missed: From Phillis Wheatley to the works of other forerunners of modern black authors, this book traces an unusual history of pioneering black literary achievers. The MidWest Book Review Reviewing We Wear the Mask seven years after it was first published, one is inevitably struck both by how well its argument and individual readings have held up. -- Vince Carreta, University of Maryland Eighteenth Century Book Reviews Online

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