To Wake the Nations: Race in the making of American literature. cloth x, 705 p.
内容
An evaluation of the "glory years" of American literature, aiming to showhow White and Black literature form a single interwoven tradition. It opensby discussing Nat Turner's "Confessions" by Thomas Gray, a white man, andcontinues with other notable writers such as Melville, Twain and Du Bois.