Freedoms Empire

"Laura Doyle's study provides a powerful and persuasive historical 'Atlantic world' recontextualization of the dialectical relation of African American and Anglo-American narrative traditions. This imaginative reframing complicates and deepens our understanding of the 'Black Atlantic' and energizes her readings of black authors, including Pauline Hopkins, Nella Larsen, and others."--Kevin K. Gaines, author of "American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era"