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Re-forming the past : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative

Title
Re-forming the past : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative / A. Timothy Spaulding.
Author
Spaulding, A. Timothy.
Publication
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2005.

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TextUse in library Sc E 06-292Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Description
x, 148 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Johnson, Charles, 1948- > Knowledge > History
  • Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
  • Butler, Octavia E
  • Morrison, Toni
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Slavery in literature
  • American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
  • Historical fiction, American > History and criticism
  • Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism
  • Postmodernism (Literature) > United States
  • African Americans in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143) and index.
Contents
The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse -- Re-forming subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.
Call Number
Sc E 06-292
ISBN
  • 0814210066 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0814290841 (CD-ROM)
LCCN
2005003203
OCLC
57669997
Author
Spaulding, A. Timothy.
Title
Re-forming the past : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative / A. Timothy Spaulding.
Imprint
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143) and index.
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Research Call Number
Sc E 06-292
JFE 06-298
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