What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on
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In his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him to Venetian Renaissance painting as a �