Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge companion to the African American slave narrative / edited by Audrey Fisch.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fisch, Audrey A.

Description

xix, 266 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

African American slave narrative

Subject

• American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• Slave narratives
• Enslaved persons' writings, American > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-258) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. The slave narrative and transnational abolitionism. The rise, development, and circulation of the slave narrative / Philip Gould ; Politics and political philosophy in the slave narrative / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. ; Olaudah Equiano : African British abolitionist and founder of the African American slave narrative / Vincent Carretta ; The slave narrative and the literature of abolition / Kerry Sinanan -- Pt. II. The slave narrative and Anglo-American literary traditions. Redeeming bondage : the captivity narrative and the spiritual autobiography in the African American slave narrative tradition / Yolanda Pierce ; The slave narrative and the revolutionary tradition of American autobiography / Robert S. Levine ; The slave narrative and sentimental literature / Cindy Weinstein -- Pt. III. The slave narrative and the African American literary tradition. The slave narrative and early Black American literature / Robert F. Reid-Pharr ; Telling slavery in "freedom's" time : post-Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance / Deborah E. McDowell ; Neo-slave narratives / Valerie Smith -- Pt. IV. The slave narrative and the politics of knowledge. Harriet Jacobs : a case history of authentication / Stephanie A. Smith ; Frederick Douglass's self-fashioning and the making of a representative American man / John Stauffer ; Beyond Douglass and Jacobs / John Ernest ; Black womanhood in North American women's slave narratives / Xiomara Santamarina.

Call Number

JFE 07-6732

ISBN

• 9780521850193 (hbk.)
• 0521850193 (hbk.)
• 9780521615266 (pbk.)
• 0521615267 (pbk.)

LCCN

2007279855

OCLC

77540847

Title

The Cambridge companion to the African American slave narrative / edited by Audrey Fisch.

Imprint

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-258) and index.

Added Author

Fisch, Audrey A.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-6732