The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave NarrativeAudrey Fisch Cambridge University Press, 31.05.2007 The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field. |
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... John Locke, which drastically nar- rowed the traditional Christian rationale for slavery as the natural exten- sion of the “slavery” of human sin.1 Another important development was the rise of sentimentalism in the eighteenth century ...
... John Locke, which drastically nar- rowed the traditional Christian rationale for slavery as the natural exten- sion of the “slavery” of human sin.1 Another important development was the rise of sentimentalism in the eighteenth century ...
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... John Marrant's Narrative similarly exemplified the edifying faith of its black subject, but its tale of captivity – already an established popular genre by the 1780s – significantly contributed to its popularity and continual repub ...
... John Marrant's Narrative similarly exemplified the edifying faith of its black subject, but its tale of captivity – already an established popular genre by the 1780s – significantly contributed to its popularity and continual repub ...
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... John Jea, the African Preacher, and The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Reverend Richard Allen (1833), recounted the dual stories of physical and spiritual liberation as well as their subjects' newfound identities as ...
... John Jea, the African Preacher, and The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Reverend Richard Allen (1833), recounted the dual stories of physical and spiritual liberation as well as their subjects' newfound identities as ...
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... John Marrant, and James Forten took such an argument and pushed it even further, both logically and emotionally, calling upon the rhetorical power of personal experience. Indeed, part of the interest in Smith's life lay in his ...
... John Marrant, and James Forten took such an argument and pushed it even further, both logically and emotionally, calling upon the rhetorical power of personal experience. Indeed, part of the interest in Smith's life lay in his ...
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... John Mitchill to make a case for the singular view of humanity. During the 1830s and 1840s, changes in abolitionism drastically affected the thematic and formal features of the slave narrative. Partly in reaction to colonization ...
... John Mitchill to make a case for the singular view of humanity. During the 1830s and 1840s, changes in abolitionism drastically affected the thematic and formal features of the slave narrative. Partly in reaction to colonization ...
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The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative Audrey Fisch Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Seite 14 - But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.