Madera, Judith Irwin, 1977-

Black atlas : geography and flow in nineteenth-century African American literature / Judith Irwin Madera. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2015. - 1 online resource ( p.) : ill., maps

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: On meaningful worlds -- National geographic : the writings of William Wells Brown -- Indigenes of territory : Martin Delany and James Beckwourth -- This house of gathering : axis Americanus -- Civic geographies and intentional communities -- Creole heteroglossia: counterregionalism and the New Orleans short fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Epilogue: Post scale : place as emergence.

9780822375951 (ebook)


American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century