Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul

"A remarkable, almost epic book. Up from slavery and up from Slavdom: Dale Peterson focuses on comparable moments in the coming-to-consciousness of two 'dark continents,' the African and the Russian, where the stubborn fact of bondage for the many, a rich and conflicted dual identity for the educated few, and routine exclusion from the European mainstream as 'non-historical peoples' motivated a sophisticated intellectual odyssey that astonishes us afresh each time we rediscover it.Up From Bondageis an inspiration."-Caryl Emerson, Princeton UniversityDale E. Peterson is the author of 'Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul', published 2000 under ISBN 9780822325604 and ISBN 0822325608.