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African American Literary Study, Now and Then and Again

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Frances Smith Foster
Frances Smith Foster*
Affiliation:
Emory University
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Extract

Recently a prominent scholar of british literature was being courted for an endowed chair at my university. At dinner he turned to me and asked, “And what do you do here?” I replied that my speciality was African American literature. He responded, “Oh, is there a constituency for that here?”

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 115 , Issue 7: Special Millennium issue , December 2000 , pp. 1965 - 1967
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2000

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