Up from slavery : authoritative text, contexts, and composition history, criticism /
Presents an annotated edition of the autobiography of Booker T. Washington, a man born in slavery who became an influential African-American leader, and founder of the Tuskegee Institute. Includes related correspondence, reviews, and critical essays.
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | [1996] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
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A Norton critical edition
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Presents an annotated edition of the autobiography of Booker T. Washington, a man born in slavery who became an influential African-American leader, and founder of the Tuskegee Institute. Includes related correspondence, reviews, and critical essays. |
Carrier Form: | xi, 262 pages ; 21 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-262) and index. |
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9780393967258 (paperback) : 0393967255 (paperback) 9781439509500 1439509506 |
Index Number: | E185 |
CLC: | K837.125.46 |
Call Number: | K837.125.46/W317-2 |
Contents: |
The text of Up from slavery. Contexts and composition: Letters about Up from slavery (1899-1900): Lyman Abbott to Booker T. Washington -- Booker T. Washington to John A. Hertel -- Booker T. Washington to Lyman Abbott -- Review of Up from slavery -- From An exemplary citizen / An African American book review -- My larger education / Criticism: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others / Radicals and conservatives / Booker T. Washington : an interpretation / Booker T. Washington in biographical perspective / Casting down / Autobiography and Washington / Booker T. Washington's mastery of form / The representation of slavery and the rise of Afro-American literary realism, 1865-1920 / |