“From Behind The Plow”: Agrarianism And Racial Uplift In African American Literature, 1881-1917

My study challenges our current valorization of movement and flow in readings of African American literature. I do so through an exploration of the representations of the black agrarian masses who either choose to remain or could not afford the spectacular forms of escape to urban life which many es...

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Main Author: O'Donoghue, James
Format: Others
Published: OpenSIUC 2020
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Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1809
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2813&context=dissertations