We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870

by Rafia Zafar

Book Overview

Uncovers the strategies early African American writers used both to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to white readers. Alongside these pioneers of black American literature Zafar juxtaposes some familiar European American Writers. Beginning with Phillis Wheatley's implicit engagements with other colonial era poets, and ending with the ultimately tragic success story of Elizabeth Keckley, ex-slave,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231080956
• ISBN13: 9780231080958
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher