African-American literature

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Document Outline

• Characteristics and themes 
• History 
  • Early African-American literature 
  • Slave narratives 
  • Frederick Douglass 
  • Spiritual narratives
  • Post-slavery era 
  • Harlem Renaissance 
  • Civil Rights Movement era 
  • Recent history
• Critiques 
  • Refuting the dominant literary culture 
  • Existing both inside and outside American literature
  • Balkanization of American literature
  • African American criticism
• See also
• Notes
• References
• Further reading 
• External links
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