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Neo-slave narratives : studies in the social logic of a literary form /

"This book studies the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave Narratives explores the complex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rushdy, Ashraf H. A., 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Colección:Race and American culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Master texts and slave narratives: race, form, and intertextuality in the field of cultural production
  • Toward 1968: the discourse in formation
  • The discourse mobilized: the debate over William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner
  • The possession of resistance: Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
  • Meditations on story: Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
  • Serving the form, conserving the order: Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale
  • Revising the form, misserving the order: Charles Johnson's Middle passage
  • Conclusion.