Cover Image

Slavery and the literary imagination / edited by Deborah E. McDowell and Arnold Rampersad.

Show other versions (1)

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors:	McDowell, Deborah E., 1951-, Rampersad, Arnold
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1989.
Edition:	Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
Series:	Selected papers from the English Institute ; new ser., no. 13.
Subjects:	Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Criticism and interpretation. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Slavery in literature. African Americans in literature. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963. American literature. American literature > African American authors. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

The founding fathers, Frederick Douglass / James Olney
Changing the letter / Hortense J. Spillers
The representation of slavery and the rise of Afro-American literary realism, 1865-1920 / William L. Andrews
Lydia Maria Child's "A romance of the republic" / Carolyn L. Karcher
Slavery and the literary imagination / Arnold Rampersad
Ideologies of black folk / Hazel V. Carby
Negotiating between tenses / Deborah E. McDowell.