Rethinking the slave narrative slave marriage and the narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft

Title:

Author:

Heglar, Charles J.

ISBN:

9780313000645

Personal Author:

Heglar, Charles J.

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2001.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 170 p.)

Series:

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 204

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 204.

Contents:

Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Slave Narrative Genre; 3. The Narrative of Recursion: Slave Marriage and Henry Bibb; 4. The Narrative of Collaboration: Slave Marriage and William and Ellen Craft; 5. Antebellum African American Fiction; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Abstract:

The African American slave narrative is popularly viewed as the story of a lone male's flight from slavery to freedom, best exemplified by the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845). On the other hand, critics have also given much attention to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), to indicate how the form could have been different if more women had written in it. But in stressing the narratives of Douglass and Jacobs as models for the genre, scholars have ignored the formal and thematic importance of marriage and family in the slave narra.

Personal Subject:

Bibb, Henry, b. 1815. Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb.

Craft, William. Running a thousand miles for freedom.

Craft, Ellen.

Subject Term:

Slavery in literature.

Marriage in literature.

Slaves -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.

Slaves' writings, American -- History and criticism.

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

African Americans in literature.