EBOOK Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom
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America&'s Literature of Race and Freedom
Philadelphia Stories analyzes the narratives about race, character, manners, violence, and freedom that unfold across a range of texts written in and about Philadelphia between 1790 and 1860. A historic and symbolic city on the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "e;free"e; African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. Otter argues that this setting produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.
Philadelphia Stories analyzes the narratives about race, character, manners, violence, and freedom that unfold across a range of texts written in and about Philadelphia between 1790 and 1860. A historic and symbolic city on the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "e;free"e; African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. Otter argues that this setting produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.