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Article: Up from Bondage: The literatures of Russian and African American Soul.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2001
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Dale E. Peterson. Up From Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. 249 pp. $18.95.
In Up from Bondage, Dale E. Peterson explores numerous parallels between the works of Russian and African American writers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Noting that historical circumstances have placed both groups of writers in marginal positions relative to mainstream Western culture, Peterson presents convincing arguments that Russian and African American writers have often responded to this marginalization in similar ways. Sometimes these similarities arise from cases of direct influence, especially of Russian writers on ...