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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... Abolition of the Slave Trade (1787) and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (1775/1784), dedicated to the abolition of the slave trade, also played a role in encouraging and publishing these narratives. These religious and political ...
... Abolition of the Slave Trade (1787) and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (1775/1784), dedicated to the abolition of the slave trade, also played a role in encouraging and publishing these narratives. These religious and political ...
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... abolition Another crucial context shaping the slave narrative during this early period was the rise of organized antislavery movements . From the early 1770s until 1807 , when the slave trade was abolished in Britain and the USA , new ...
... abolition Another crucial context shaping the slave narrative during this early period was the rise of organized antislavery movements . From the early 1770s until 1807 , when the slave trade was abolished in Britain and the USA , new ...
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... abolitionist Thomas Clarkson's An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1785); the latter work expressly acknowledges the English abolitionists Granville Sharp and William Wilberforce. Cugoano's prose style, moreover ...
... abolitionist Thomas Clarkson's An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1785); the latter work expressly acknowledges the English abolitionists Granville Sharp and William Wilberforce. Cugoano's prose style, moreover ...
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... abolitionist movement in America had fragmented into differ- ent organizations, like the American and Foreign Antislavery Society, due largely to social and gender issues dividing conservative religious mem- bers from others. Many other ...
... abolitionist movement in America had fragmented into differ- ent organizations, like the American and Foreign Antislavery Society, due largely to social and gender issues dividing conservative religious mem- bers from others. Many other ...
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... abolitionist readers and publishers desired – indeed required – that kind of detailed evidence. A good example of this is the Narrative of James Williams (1838), which was edited and transcribed by the poet and abolitionist John ...
... abolitionist readers and publishers desired – indeed required – that kind of detailed evidence. A good example of this is the Narrative of James Williams (1838), which was edited and transcribed by the poet and abolitionist John ...
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