“Black Matters”: Race and Literary History in Mat Johnson’s Pym
After being denied tenure for expanding his teaching of race and literary history beyond exclusively African American texts, Chris Jaynes, the protagonist of Mat Johnson’s novel Pym (2011), sets out to retrace the voyage from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantuck...
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European Association for American Studies
2016-06-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11523 |