(Dis) Forming the American Canon : African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular.

(Dis) Forming the American Canon : African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular.

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Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourses claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that thr...

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Main Author: Judy, Ronald A. T.
Other Authors: Lubiano, Wahneema
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993
Subjects:
African Americans in literature.
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American prose literature > Arab American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Arab Americans in literature.
Autobiography.
Canon (Literature)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Slavery > United States > Historiography.
Enslaved persons' writings, American > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Autobiographies as Topic.
autobiography (genre)
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