A Spy in the Enemy's Country: The Emergence of Modern Black Literature

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"In this persuasive and well-documented study of the social and historical forces shaping the development of self, Petesch located the origins of modern Black literature in the nineteenth-century texts of black Americans, especially slave narratives, which differed remarkably from the literature of the dominant white culture."