Calls and Responses : The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind /

In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ryan, Tim A., 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery in literature.
American fiction.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Designs against Tara: representing slavery in American culture, 1936-1944
  • From Tara to Turner: slavery and slave psychologies in American fiction and history, 1945-1968
  • You shall see how a slave was made a woman: the development of the contemporary novel of slavery, 1976-1987
  • Scarlett and Mammy done gone: complications of the contemporary novel of slavery, 1986-2003
  • Mapping the unrepresentable: slavery fiction in the new millennium.

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