What Was African American Literature? REL006410 As you progress in your

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What Was African American Literature? REL006410 As you progress in yourAfrican American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature and to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters,