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... ambitiously, that the chang- ing constructions of whiteness and blackness across the temporal divide of slavery’s end should help account for the formation of the poetics of moder- nity’’ (5). Although Gray attempts to develop her thesis as an interaction ‘‘between the making of poetry and the making of...

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