The Wings of Atalanta: Essays Written Along the Color Line

by Mark Richardson

Employing close reading of a kind usually associated with the study of lyric poetry, this book offers a general framework for reading African-American (and American) literature.

This book springs from two premises. The first is that, with a nod toward Marianne Moore, America is - has always been - an imaginary place with real people living in it. The second is that slavery and its legacies explain how and why this is the case. The second...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571132392
• ISBN13: 9781571132390
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"