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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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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.