Loopholes and Retreats

Download or read book Loopholes and Retreats written by John Cullen Gruesser and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore the loopholes and retreats employed and exploited by African American polemicists, poets, novelists, slave narrators, playwrights, short story writers, essayists, editors, educators, historians, clubwomen, and autobiographers during the nineteenth century. These exciting contributions use historicist, comparative, transnational, literary historical, cultural studies, and Foucauldian perspectives to examine how apparent weakness was turned into strength, defensiveness into offensiveness, and the machinery of oppression into the keys to liberation.