The slave narrative / editor, Kimberly Drake, Scripps College, Claremont, California.
This book provides readers with essays that present an overview of 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 out...
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| Other title: | Critical Insights: The Slave Narrative. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing,
[2014]
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| Edition: | [First edition] |
| Series: | Critical insights.
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Table of Contents:
- Critical contexts. Mary Prince: black rebel, abolitionist, storyteller / Margot Maddison-MacFadyn ; Solomon Northup: twelve years a slave, forever a witness / Ginger Jones ; Rewriting the American self: race, gender, and identity in the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs / Kimberly Drake (reprint) ; Gaps and silences: unconventional methods of "speaking" in the narratives of Mary Prince and Harriet Jacobs / Christopher Carranza
- Critical readings. 12 Years a Slave: the ecstatic truth of slavery / Dylan Moses Griffin ; Ottoman slave narratives: selfhood and faith, trials and travails? Defne Türker Demir ; Unspeakable things spoken: re-evaluating the slave narrative as a response to Antebellum anti-abolition politicking / Christopher Allen Varlack ; Can you write the black revolution? The black literary tradition, slave narratives, and the depoliticizing and silencing of guerilla black mass protest / Aminah Wallace ; The critics on Uncle Tom's Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe's audience and social change / Gerardo Del Guercio ; Decentralized power and resistance in The Bondwoman's Narrative / Dong L. Isbister ; The strong, disabled African American slave in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred / Katherine Lashley ; "Terrible memory": Toni Morrison's Beloved / Kimberly Drake ; A house is not a home: property lines in Edward P. Jones' The Known World / Richard Hardack.