Sundquist, Eric J.. To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / Eric J. Sundquist. [0674893301 (acid-free paper) :] Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS153.N5 S9 1993

An opening discussion of Nat Turner's "Confessions," recorded by a white man, Thomas Gray, establishes a paradigm for the complexity of meanings that Sundquist analyzes in American literary texts. Focusing on Frederick Douglass's autobiographical books, Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Martin Delany's novel Blake; or the Huts of America, Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, Charles Chesnutt's fiction, and W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Darkwater,