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Article: The Origins of African-American Literature: 1680-1865.(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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by Dickson D. Bruce Jr. The University Press of Virginia December 2001 $19.50, ISBN 0-813-92067-1
The earliest black writers believed in the "power of literature to change minds," says Dickson D. Bruce Jr., in his thoughtful study of the social conditions that fostered and shaped African-American literary expression in the United States through the colonial period, the Revolutionary War, slavery and emancipation.
Part social history and part literary analysis, The Origins of African American Literature chronicles the development of an authoritative African-American voice that--using established literary forms--enabled blacks to participate in race ...