To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature

by Eric J. Sundquist

Book Overview

This powerful book argues that white culture in America does not exist apart from black culture. The revolution of the rights of man that established this country collided long ago with the system of slavery, and we have been trying to reestablish a steady course for ourselves ever since. To Wake the Nations is urgent and rousing: we have integrated our buses, schools, and factories, but not the canon of American literature. That is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067489331X
• ISBN13: 9780674893313
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"