Anna Hartnell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Rewriting Exodus (Pluto, 2011).

'This important, smartly written, and insightful study facilitates deeper understanding of why President Barack Obama's election failed to reconcile fundamental fissures in American society'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction – Rewriting Exodus1. Re-reading America: Barack Obama2. Double Consciousness and the Master/Slave Dialectic: W.E.B. Du Bois3. Excavating the Promised Land: Martin Luther King4. Reclaiming ‘Egypt’: Malcolm X5. Transcending the Nation: Toni Morrison’s ParadiseConclusion - Exodus and Return in Post-Katrina New OrleansNotesBibliographyindex

Anna Hartnell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Rewriting Exodus (Pluto, 2011).

'This important, smartly written, and insightful study facilitates deeper understanding of why President Barack Obama's election failed to reconcile fundamental fissures in American society'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction – Rewriting Exodus1. Re-reading America: Barack Obama2. Double Consciousness and the Master/Slave Dialectic: W.E.B. Du Bois3. Excavating the Promised Land: Martin Luther King4. Reclaiming ‘Egypt’: Malcolm X5. Transcending the Nation: Toni Morrison’s ParadiseConclusion - Exodus and Return in Post-Katrina New OrleansNotesBibliographyindex

Anna Hartnell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Rewriting Exodus (Pluto, 2011).

'This important, smartly written, and insightful study facilitates deeper understanding of why President Barack Obama's election failed to reconcile fundamental fissures in American society'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction – Rewriting Exodus1. Re-reading America: Barack Obama2. Double Consciousness and the Master/Slave Dialectic: W.E.B. Du Bois3. Excavating the Promised Land: Martin Luther King4. Reclaiming ‘Egypt’: Malcolm X5. Transcending the Nation: Toni Morrison’s ParadiseConclusion - Exodus and Return in Post-Katrina New OrleansNotesBibliographyindex