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 America collided long ago with the system of slavery, and we have been trying to re-establish 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 task Eric Sundquist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674893301
• ISBN13: 9780674893306
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 705 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"