Research Catalog

Title

Re-forming the past [electronic resource] : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative / A. Timothy Spaulding.

Author

Spaulding, A. Timothy.

Publication

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2005.

Details

Description

1 online resource (x, 148 p.)

Uniform Title

Re-forming the past (Online)

Alternative Title

Re-forming the past (Online)

Subject

• Johnson, Charles, 1948- > Knowledge and learning
• 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
• Enslaved persons

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction -- The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart -- 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 Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.

LCCN

2005003203

OCLC

ssj0001457843

Author

Spaulding, A. Timothy.

Title

Re-forming the past [electronic resource] : 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.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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