Neo-slave Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neo-slave Narratives write by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy. This book was released on 1999. Neo-slave Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent cultural debates that arose during the sixties."--BOOK JACKET.
A History of the African American Novel
A History of the African American Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the African American Novel write by Valerie Babb. This book was released on 2017-07-31. A History of the African American Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative write by Audrey Fisch. This book was released on 2007-05-31. The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.
The Slave Narrative
The Slave Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Slave Narrative write by Kimberly Drake. This book was released on 2014. The Slave Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edited by Kimberly Drake, who directs the writing program and teaches writing and American literature and culture at Scripps College, this volume includes chapters on the more widely read slave narratives, including those by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Solomon Northup, but also relatively lesser-known narratives, such as neo-slave narrative novels and slave narratives about slavery outside the U.S. Individual chapters will provide researchers with a wide range of approaches to the slave narrative genre, and the volume's Preface will discuss the history of the slave narrative genre from its origins to the present day, where it makes its way into popular films and novels.
Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative
Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative write by Elizabeth A. Beaulieu. This book was released on 1999-03-30. Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history from the perspective of the African American woman, most specifically the nineteenth century enslaved mother. The writers considered in this study—Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler—explore American slavery through the lens of gender, both to interrogate the myth that enslaved women, denied the privilege of having a gender identity by the institution of slavery, were in fact genderless, and to celebrate the acts of resistance which enabled enslaved women to mother in the fullest sense of the term. The volume begins with an overview of historical representations of slavery in America, from the slave narrative itself to the revisionist scholarship of the 1960s. The book then examines several individual neo-slave narratives, such as Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Williams' Dessa Rose (1986), Morrison's Beloved (1987), Cooper's Family (1991), Jones' Corregidora (1975), and Butler's Kindred (1979). What the women in these novels have in common is the fact that they mother; what the writers have in common is a tendency to utilize subversive strategies such as reversal, blurring, and the creation of myth to dramatize gender identity and to highlight the varied nature of motherhood as enslaved women experienced it. The final chapter evaluates the influence of the neo-slave narrative on American literature in general and on popular perceptions and misperceptions of African American women.
