| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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[Oxford handbooks] |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Contents |
Slave narratives and historical memory / Mitch Kachun -- Slave narratives and archival research / Eric Gardner -- Slave narratives and historical understanding / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. -- Slave narratives and US legal history / Jeannine Marie DeLombard -- The WPA narratives as historical sources / Marie Jenkins Schwartz -- The other slave narratives: the Works Progress Administration interviews / Sharon Ann Musher -- The witness of African American folkways: the landscape of slave narratives / John Michael Vlach -- The slave narrative as material text / Teresa A. Goddu -- Reading communities: slave narratives and the discursive reader / Dwight A. McBride and Justin A. Joyce -- A reflection on the slave narrative and American literature / Kenneth W. Warren -- Slave narratives and visual culture / Marcus Wood -- Slave narratives, 1865-1900 / William L. Andrews -- "This horrible exhibition": sexuality in slave narratives / Aliyyah I. Abdur Rahman -- "There is might in each": slave narratives and Black feminism / DoVeanna S. Fulton -- "I rose a freeman": power, property, and the performance of manhood in slave narratives / Maurice O. Wallace -- Family and community in slave narratives / Brenda E. Stevenson -- Collaborative American slave narratives / Barbara McCaskill -- Environmental criticism and the slave narratives / Kimberly K. Smith -- Locating slave narratives / Rhondda Robinson Thomas -- Slave narratives and hemispheric studies / Winfried Siemerling -- Caribbean slave narratives / Nicole N. Aljoe -- Slave narratives, the Romantic imagination, and transatlantic literature / Helen Thomas -- "Puzzling the intervals": Blind Tom and the poetics of the sonic slave narrative / Daphne A. Brooks -- The truth of slave narratives: slavery's traces in postmemory narratives in postemancipation life / Joycelyn K. Moody |
| Summary |
This volume approaches the history of slave testimony in three ways: by prioritising the broad tradition over individual authors; by representing inter-disciplinary approaches to slave narratives; and by highlighting emerging scholarship on slave narratives, concerning both established debates over concerns of authorship and agency, for example, and developing concerns like eco-critical readings of slave narratives |
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The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative approaches the history of slave testimony in three ways: by prioritizing the broad tradition over individual authors; by representing interdisciplinary approaches to slave narratives; and by highlighting emerging scholarship on slave narratives, concerning both established debates over concerns of authorship and agency, for example, and developing concerns like ecocritical readings of slave narratives. Ultimately, the aim of the Handbook is not to highlight the singularity of any particular account, nor to comfortably locate slave narratives in traditional literary or cultural history, but rather to faithfully represent a body of writing and testimony that was designed to speak for the many, to represent the unspeakable, and to account for the experience of enslaved and nominally free communities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2014) |
| SUBJECT |
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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Slave narratives -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Enslaved persons' writings, American -- History and criticism
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American prose literature -- African American authors
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Slave narratives
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Enslaved persons' writings, American
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Schwarze
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Sklave
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Literatur
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Sklaverei Motiv
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ernest, John, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199983094 |
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0199983097 |
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9780199731480 |
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0199731489 |
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