Eric J. Sundquist

Author of Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Bedford Documentary Companion

About the Author

Eric J. Sundquist is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University and the editor of many books, including (with David Cesarani) After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence. A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture Ezra show more Cappell, editor show less

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Works by Eric J. Sundquist

King's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (2008) 72 copies, 2 reviews

To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1993) 66 copies

The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader (1996) — Editor — 65 copies

Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (2005) 22 copies

Faulkner: A House Divided (1983) 18 copies

New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin (The American Novel) (1986) — Editor — 12 copies

Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays (1990) 8 copies

Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865 (2006) 6 copies

American Realism: New Essays (1982) 5 copies

Home as Found: Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (1979) 5 copies

Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader (Suny Series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture) (2018) 5 copies

The Hammers of Creation (1992) 4 copies

Mark Twain: A Collection of Critical Essays (New Century Views) (1994) 2 copies

American Realism: New Essays 2 copies

Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 1 copy

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Associated Works

Literary Theory: An Anthology (1998) — Contributor, some editions — 741 copies, 1 review

As I Lay Dying [Norton Critical Edition] (2009) — Contributor — 598 copies, 6 reviews

The Marrow of Tradition (1901) — Editor, some editions — 523 copies, 5 reviews

The Conjure Stories [Norton Critical Edition] (2011) — Contributor — 24 copies

After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence (2011) — Contributor — 11 copies

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Gender: male
Education: University of Kansas (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (MA, PhD)
Occupations: literature professor
Organizations: University of California, Los Angeles (professor)
Nationality: USA
Map Location: USA

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bruchu 168 reviews

King's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (Icons of America) by Eric J. Sundquist

Great Analysis

A great textual analysis of one of the greatest speeches of the twentieth-century, and possibly of all time. Eric J. Sundquist provides not only a careful reading of Martin Luther King Jr.'s seminal speech on the March on Washington but also several others including his prophetic Mountaintop speech in Memphis.

There isn't very much new research gained from this philological analysis and Sundquist stays away from some of the more controversial aspects of MLK, but Sundquist's show more insights are nonetheless very interesting to read. As he states in the introduction, "our challenge today is to recapture King's dream -- not to relive, nostalgically, the elation of August 28, 1963, nor pretend that he could or would give the same speech today" (p 13).

Anybody studying MLK the poet, or the history of the civil rights movement will benefit from this book, definitely a recommend read. show less

May 23, 20091 other review

mie.z 8 reviews

King's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (Icons of America) by Eric J. Sundquist

I think he is great.
If I were discriminated, I could not act like him.
We have to follow his example.
I strongly think discrimination have to remove all over the world.

Jul 21, 20101 other review