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Literary criticism
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Article
UDC: 
821.111(73).09+929
DOI: 
10.18500/1817-7115-2018-18-3-286-291
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YGLTFZ

“Breaking Heart to the Time of Laughter”: Sentimental and Comic Image of the Blacks in American Literature and Culture of the 18th – the Beginning of the 20th Century

Autors: 
Panova Olga Yu., Lomonosov Moscow State University
Abstract: 

The paper considers the bipolar racial model representing African Americans in tragic and / or comic modality in American literature and culture (18th – the beginning of the 20th century). This model was formed in the 18th – beginning 19th century, continued to exist in American abolitionist writings, minstrelsy and plantation novel during the 19th century; having been absorbed by the Black American literary tradition, it underwent a considerable change especially in the Harlem Renaissance period.

Key words: 
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Abolitionism
minstrelsy
plantation novel
African Americans
H. Beecher Stowe
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Received: 
29.04.2018
Accepted: 
20.05.2018
Available online: 
20.08.2018
Published: 
20.08.2018