Title Neo-slave narratives : studies in the social logic of a literary form / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) Series Race and American culture Race and American culture. Contents 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 Summary "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 relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent cultural debates that arose during the sixties."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-276) and index Notes Print version record Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism Slavery in literature. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Enslaved persons' writings, American -- History and criticism African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) African Americans in literature. First person narrative. Literary form -- History -- 20th century Literary form. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life American fiction American fiction -- African American authors First person narrative Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literary form Literature and society Slavery in literature Enslaved persons' writings, American Fictie. Amerikaans. Ik-romans. Slaven (arbeid) United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 142940468X 9781429404686

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