The slave in the swamp : disrupting the plantation narrative /

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First published in 2005.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cowan, William Tynes, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Colección:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Temas:
1800-1899
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism.
Fugitive slaves in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Roman américain > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire et critique.
Esclaves fugitifs dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
American fiction.
Literature.
Literatur
Sklave > Motiv
Flucht > Motiv
Southern States > In literature.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la littérature.
Southern States.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: into the dismal swamp
  • Identity and the dynamics of space
  • Sambo, Nat, and the gentleman planter: notions of self on the plantation
  • The slave in the swamp: claiming space
  • John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow barn and the birth of plantation literature
  • Literary swamps of the 1850s
  • Proslavery writers in the wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • African American views of the swamp: slave narratives and early fiction
  • Stowe's Dred and the discourse of violence in the 1850s
  • Reconciliation and the lost cause
  • Dredging the swamps: Joel Chandler Harris and the packaging of African American folklore
  • The cult of the lost cause and Thomas Nelson Page's "No Haid Pawn"
  • George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes and plantation narrative(s)
  • Conclusion: the body of the maroon.

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