Neo-slave Narratives : Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form.
Title:
Neo-slave Narratives : Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form.
Author:
Rushdy, Ashraf H. A.
ISBN:
9780198029007
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Series:
Race and American Culture
Contents:
Contents -- One: Master Texts and Slave Narratives: Race, Form, and Intertextuality in the Field of Cultural Production -- Two: Toward 1968: The Discourse in Formation -- Three: The Discourse Mobilized: The Debate over William Styrons The Confessions of Nat Turner -- Four: The Possession of Resistance: Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada -- Five: Meditations on Story: Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Six: Serving the Form, Conserving the Order: Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale -- Seven: Revising the Form, Misserving the Order: Charles Johnson's Middle Passage -- Eight: Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. The text explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, and asks how African-American intellectuals made use of this form.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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