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In this wide-ranging study, Dickson D. Bruce. Jr., analyzes post-Reconstruction and turn-of-the-century black writing, treating minor as well as major authors and considering a broad range of genres. Bruce shows that black writers confronted the conditions of an increasingly racist society in almost every aspect of their work--from their choice of subject matter to the way they drew their characters to the mood they portrayed. At the same time...

From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines and a medium through which black writers have been able to exert considerable authority on both sides of that racial demarcation.Dickson D. Bruce argues that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American voices as silenced and excluded from American history, those voices were loud a...

Draws from a variety of sources - literature, politics, folklore, social history - to attempt to set Southern beliefs about violence in a cultural context. This book describes Southerners' attitudes as illustrated in their duels, hunting, and the rhetoric of their politicians.

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A murder case with all the elements of melodrama -- including seduction and betrayal, political intrigue, honor, and greed -- the Kentucky Tragedy of 1825 riveted the attention of the nation. For decades afterward, its themes resonated in American writing. With unprecedented objectivity, Dickson Bruce recounts the events of the case and offers an innovative analysis of the poems, novels, dramas, and commentary it inspired. He uncovers an intri...

The author combines approaches from history, social anthropology, and folklore to study camp-meeting religion itself and the camp-meeting that flourished in the ante-bellum South.