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  • Review: Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness
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Author Jan Benes

Jan Benes

Jan Beneš (PhD, University of Ostrava) is a Harlem Renaissance scholar, focusing on archival research on interwar Black pilots and their literary and media representation.

Review: Christian Schmidt, Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction.

Jan Benes
Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
Schmidt, Christian. Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017 (Volume 256 of American Studies). ISBN 9783825374914. €45 (Hardback). ... Read More...
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