Martin R. Delany : A Documentary Reader

Robert S. Levine

ISBN 10: 080785431X / ISBN 13: 9780807854310

Editore: The University Of North Carolina Press, 2003

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Martin R. Delany (1812 85) has been called the "Father of Black Nationalism," but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth century, and his continuing influence on black nationalist thought in the twentieth century, Delany has remained a relatively obscure figure in U.S. culture, generally portrayed as a radical separatist at odds with the more integrationist Frederick Douglass.This pioneering documentary collection offers readers a chance to discover, or rediscover, Delany in all his complexity. Through nearly 100 documents approximately two-thirds of which have not been reprinted since their initial nineteenth-century publications it traces the full sweep of his fascinating career. Included are selections from Delany s early journalism, his emigrationist writings of the 1850s, his 1859-62 novel, Blake (one of the first African American novels published in the United States), and his later writings on Reconstruction. Incisive and shrewd, angry and witty, Delany s words influenced key nineteenth-century debates on race and nation, addressing issues that remain pressing in our own time.

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• Titolo: Martin R. Delany : A Documentary Reader
• Editore: The University Of North Carolina Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 080785431X
• ISBN 13: 9780807854310
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 234 L x 156 A x 31 P (millimetri) 234 millimetri di larghezza per 156 millimetri di altezza per 31 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 879 grammi

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Martin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the "Father of Black Nationalism," but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth century, and his continuing influence on black nationalist thought in the twentieth century, Delany has remained a relatively obscure figure in U.S. culture, generally portrayed as a radical separatist at odds with the more integrationist Frederick Douglass.

This pioneering documentary collection offers readers a chance to discover, or rediscover, Delany in all his complexity. Through nearly 100 documents--approximately two-thirds of which have not been reprinted since their initial nineteenth-century publications--it traces the full sweep of his fascinating career. Included are selections from Delany's early journalism, his emigrationist writings of the 1850s, his 1859-62 novel, Blake (one of the first African American novels published in the United States), and his later writings on Reconstruction. Incisive and shrewd, angry and witty, Delany's words influenced key nineteenth-century debates on race and nation, addressing issues that remain pressing in our own time.

L'autore

Robert S. Levine is professor of English and director of graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His books include Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity.