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Loose Canons

Loose Canons

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

African American authorsAfrican AmericansAfrican Americans in literatureAmerican literatureCanon (Literature)
3.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

Examines multiculturism in American literature and the cultural diversity found in the American classroom.

Themes & subjects

African American authorsAfrican AmericansAfrican Americans in literatureAmerican literatureCanon (Literature)Culture conflict

Setting

United States

About the author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

16 September 1950

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He has discovered what are considered the first books by African-American writers, both of them women, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon. - Wikipedia

Author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Pages

218

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

9781280654886

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