Research Catalog

Title

Voices of the fugitives : runaway slave stories and their fictions of self-creation / Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr.

Author

Bland, Sterling Lecater, Jr., 1961-

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

xviii, 184 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Situates close analytical readings of individual slave narratives within the larger context of social, political, cultural, and literary conditions influencing the fugitive slave narrative genre.

Series Statement

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 199

Uniform Title

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 199.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography > History and criticism
• American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century
• Enslaved persons' writings, American > History and criticism
• Enslaved persons > United States > Intellectual life
• Racially mixed people in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Passing (Identity) in literature
• African Americans in literature
• Fugitive slaves in literature
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Self in literature
• Autobiography
• autobiography (genre)
• African Americans in literature
• African Americans > Intellectual life
• American fiction > African American authors
• American prose literature
• American prose literature > African American authors
• Autobiography
• Fugitive slaves in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Passing (Identity) in literature
• Racially mixed people in literature
• Self in literature
• Enslaved persons' writings, American
• Sklave Motiv
• Flucht Motiv
• Autobiografie
• Literatur
• Slaves' writings, American > History and criticism
• Sklave <Motiv>
• Flucht <Motiv>
• United States
• USA
• Schwärze

Genre/Form

• autobiographies (literary works)
• Autobiographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index.

Contents

Let the world dream otherwise : the literary masks of fugitive slave stories -- Dismantling the master's house : the cultural context -- Religion, revolt, and the commodification of language : the limitations of "voice" in The confessions of Nat Turner -- "Behold a man transformed" : sacred language and the secular self in Frederick Douglass's Narrative -- Authority, power, and determination of the will : the dilemma of rhetorical ownership in Frederick Douglass's My bondage and my freedom and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- Ambiguity, passing, and the politics of color : the reconstruction of race in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom -- Of being and nothingness : Caliban's reprise.

ISBN

• 0313311692
• 9780313311697
• 0275967077
• 9780275967079

LCCN

99055223

OCLC

• ocm42765222
• 42765222
• SCSB-1134075

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library