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Slave narratives
- Title
- Slave narratives / James Tackach, book editor.
- Publication
- San Diego, CA. : Greenhaven Press, c2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Tackach, James.
- Description
- 190 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Greenhaven Press companion to literary movements and genres
- Subjects
- African Americans in literature
- American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Slaves > United States > Biography > History and criticism
- Slaves > United States > Intellectual life
- Slaves' writings, American > Sources
- Slaves' writings, American > History and criticism
- African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century
- Slavery in literature
- Autobiography > African American authors
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-181) and index.
- Contents
- The first slave narratives: tales of rogues and runaways / Marion Wilson Starling -- Eightenth-century narratives offer a mild critique of slavery / Frances Smith Foster -- Nineteenth-century narratives condemn a dehumanizing system / William L. Andrews -- The postbellum slave narrative: assuming the responsibilities of freedom / Frances Smith Foster -- The slave narrative and the Puritan captivity narrative / Richard Slotkin -- Frederick Douglass's use of abolitionist documents / John W. Blassingame -- Biblical allusion and imagery in Frederick Douglass's narrative / Lisa Margaret Zeitz -- The slave narrative and the picaresque tradition / Charles H. Nichols -- Literacy and freedom in the slave narrative / Janet Duitsman Cornelius -- Freedom involves a home and family / Jena Fagan Yellin -- The slave narrator as antislavery activist / Victor C.D. Mtubani -- Life after freedom: fulfilling the American dream / Sidonie Smith -- The development of women's slave narratives / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Defining the slave narrative in female terms / Joanne M. Braxton -- The exploitation of female slaves by their white mistresses / Minrose C. Gwin -- The portrayal of slave women in slave narratives / Hazel V. Carby -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's use of slave narratives / Robert B. Stepto -- The slave narrative and the early African American novel / Marva J. Furman -- The slave narrative and twentieth-century African American autobiography / Lucinda H. Mackethan -- Toni Morrison's use of the slave narrative in Beloved / Joycelyn K. Moody.
- Call Number
- Sc D 09-126
- ISBN
- 0737705507 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 9780737705508 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 0737705493 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780737705492 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00037577
- OCLC
- 43919767
- Title
- Slave narratives / James Tackach, book editor.
- Imprint
- San Diego, CA. : Greenhaven Press, c2001.
- Series
- Greenhaven Press companion to literary movements and genres
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-181) and index.
- Added Author
- Tackach, James.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 09-126