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The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville.
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Critical Race TheoryLiterary TheoryBlack ExperienceEarly American LiteratureAmerican LiteratureExistentialismLiterary CriticismAfrican American StudiesLanguage StudiesMyth-making ProcessLiterary StudyCritical MethodPoeticsCritical TheoryLiterary HistoryHumanitiesBlack PoliticsLiterary IconologyAfrocentricity
The Power of Blackness is a profound and searching reinterpretation of Hawthorne, Poe and Melville, the three classic American masters of fiction. It is also an experiment in critical method, an exploration of the myth-making process by way of what may come to be known as literary iconology.