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The Black 'I': Author and Audience in African-American Literature (African-American Literature and Culture, Vol. 2) by Boan, Devon, 1953- is a language learning available to read on EtoBox.
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Arguing that African-American writers have always been implicitly conscious of having two audiences (a black audience and the dominant white culture) judging them and their works, Boan (Belmont U.) examines the effect of W.E.B. Du Bois's "double consciousness" on African-American authors and argues against seeing an Afro-American "essentialism" in understanding their works. He rejects the monolithic view of African-American literature that he believes develops from the essentialist position, att
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- Author
- Boan, Devon, 1953-
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780820457376
- Category
- language learning
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Language Learning, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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