Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History

by John Ernest

What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important strains of black scholarship. With this book, he creates a new and just retelling of African American literary history that neither ignores nor transcends racial history.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807859834
• ISBN13: 9780807859834
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"