Blake; Or, the Huts of America: A Corrected Edition

Delany, Martin R.

ISBN 10: 0674088727 / ISBN 13: 9780674088726

Editore: Harvard University Press, 2017

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Riassunto:

<p>Martin R. Delany’s <i>Blake</i> (1859, 1861–1862) is one of the most important African American—and indeed American—works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake’s escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions, both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an independent black state. <i>Blake</i> is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking off before its final scene.<br><br>This edition of <i>Blake</i>, prepared by textual scholar Jerome McGann, offers the first correct printing of the work in book form. It establishes an accurate text, supplies contextual notes and commentaries, and presents an authoritative account of the work’s composition and publication history. In a lively introduction, McGann argues that Delany employs the resources of fiction to develop a critical account of the interconnected structure of racist power as it operated throughout the American Atlantic. He likens <i>Blake</i> to Upton Sinclair’s <i>The Jungle</i>, in its willful determination to transform a living and terrible present.<br><br><i>Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition </i>will be used in undergraduate and graduate classes on the history of African American fiction, on the history of the American novel, and on black cultural studies. General readers will welcome as well the first reliable edition of Delany’s fiction.</p>

Informazioni sull'autore: Jerome J. McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia, and the Thomas Holloway Professor of Victorian Media and Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Byron, Fiery Dust (1962) and Don Juan In Context (1972) and the editor of The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron (1980 1993).

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Titolo: Blake; Or, the Huts of America: A Corrected ...
Casa editrice: Harvard University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2017
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
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