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Article: The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology. Edited by William L. Andrews. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xii], 314. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5665-9; cloth, $42.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-2994-3.)
Scholars and readers of American literature have likely encountered passages identifying many African American authors' origins in North Carolina. Anna Julia Cooper, Harriet Jacobs, and Charles W. Chesnutt are regularly tied to the Old North State. Still, the relationship between African American literature and North Carolina usually receives only fleeting biographical attention. William L. Andrews's The North ...