Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Market Place - Tapa dura

Rohrbach, A.

 
9780312239213: Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Market Place
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ISBN 10: 0312239211 ISBN 13: 9780312239213
Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Sinopsis

Using the lens of business history to contextualize the development of an American literary tradition, this book shows how African-American literature and culture greatly influenced the development of realism, which remains one of the most significant genres of writing in the US. More specifically, "Truth Stranger than Fiction" traces the influences of generic conventions popularized in slave narratives, such as the use of authenticating details, as well as dialect and a frank treatment of the human body in later realist writings. As it unfolds, this book poses and explores a set of questions about the shifting relationship between literature and culture in the US from 1830 to 1930 by focusing on the evolving trend of literary realism. Beginning with the question, "how might slave narratives - heralded as the first indigenous literature by Theodore Parker - have influenced the development of American literature?", the book develops connections between an emerging literary market-place, the rise of the professional writer and literary realism.

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Acerca del autor

AUGUSTA ROHRBACH is currently on a joint appointment at the Bunting Fellowship Program and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute at Harvard University after being Bunting Fellow the previous year. In addition she has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Houghton Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and Oberlin College in support of this work. She taught at Oberlin College for four years (1995-99). She received a doctorate in American Literature from Columbia University in 1994. Her work has been published in national journals such as American Literature, Callaloo, Edith Wharton Review, International Studies in Philosophy, New England Quarterly, Print Magazine, and Prospects.

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Editorial
Palgrave Macmillan
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0312239211
ISBN 13 
9780312239213
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Número de páginas
172
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