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A spy in the enemy's country : the emergence of modern Black literaturre by Donald A. Petesch is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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In Part One I examine the literary, historical, and social contexts within which the emerging Black literature took root. Conditions encouraged certain qualities in the literature, qualities which have persisted as racism has persisted: 1) a collective point of view; 2) the mimetic mode; 3) a sensitivity to the play of power; 4) a consciousness of the fragility of the self; 5) a predilection for the moral imperative; and 6) a recurrence of the tactic of masking. The preoccupation with identity a
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- Author
- Donald A. Petesch
- Publisher
- Iowa City: University of Iowa Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780877453222
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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