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Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition
Martin R. Delany
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Description for Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition
Paperback. Martin R. Delany's Blake (c. 1860) tells the story of Henry Blake's escape from a southern plantation and his travels in the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Cuba on a mission to unite blacks of the Atlantic region in the struggle for freedom. Jerome McGann's edition offers the first correct printing of the work and an authoritative introduction. Num Pages: 350 pages, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 542.
Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861-1862) is one of the most important African American--and indeed American--works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake's escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions, both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an independent black state. Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking ... Read more
Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861-1862) is one of the most important African American--and indeed American--works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake's escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions, both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an independent black state. Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
542g
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674088726
SKU
V9780674088726
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About Martin R. Delany
Jerome McGann is University Professor and John Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Reviews for Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition
An American literary classic most Americans have never heard of...The actual novel itself is unapologetically didactic, its characters mainly acting as mouthpieces for the author's polemics
but those polemics possess a startling directness that makes a 21st-century reading of this fully-restored Blake as arresting as its original readers must have found it.
Steve Donoghue Christian Science Monitor (02/20/2017) McGann has done ... Read more
but those polemics possess a startling directness that makes a 21st-century reading of this fully-restored Blake as arresting as its original readers must have found it.
Steve Donoghue Christian Science Monitor (02/20/2017) McGann has done ... Read more