Master narratives, identities, and the stories of former slaves /

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"This book ... analyzes the audio-recordings of the narratives of former slaves from the American South which are now publicly available on the Library of Congress website: Voices from the days of slavery. More specifically, this book analyses the identity work of these former slaves and consid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Clifton, Jonathan (Lecturer in business communication) (Autor), Mieroop, Dorien Van De (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.
Colección:Studies in narrative ; v. 22.
Temas:
1800-1899
Slave narratives > United States.
Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Récits d'esclaves > États-Unis.
Esclaves > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Slave narratives
Enslaved persons > Social conditions
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: identity, narrative and context
  • The slave narratives: a historical background
  • Narratives and the historical context of the interview: heroes and villains in narratives of law and order
  • Different "slave-as-animal"-identities vis-à-vis different "historical" and current dominant discourses
  • The white supremacy master narrative as an oeuvre civilisatrice: navigating identities along the sameness-difference dimension
  • An emic view on intertwined counter- and master-narratives of race, obedience, and religion
  • Remembering and forgetting: master narratives and memories of violence
  • Truth, falsehood, and master narratives: the case of Charlie Smith and the fritter tree
  • Conclusions.

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