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| | Commentary Magazine - The Norton Anthology of African American Literature edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15) |
 | | ...In the diversity and even the self-contradiction of the writings that fill its many pages, the new Norton itself escapes the limits of the environment in which it was conceived, and honors an earlier and better idea of literature as a mirror of the mixed truths of lived human experience... |
 | | ...Published African-American literature begins in Protestant poetry, spiritual autobiography, adventure stories, political writing, and the many popular forms of the late 18th and early 19th century... |
 | | ...Invoking the language of folk sermons, songs, and tales, Gates defines American fl literature as a "talking book" or, alternatively, an "archive": an imagined institution in which the (adversarial) oral traditions of American fls have become, in effect, their version of a literary canon... |
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