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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... antebellum slave nar- rative sharpened its focus and became an increasingly popular and effective political means of fighting slavery . Slave narratives cannot be reduced to these different ideological influences , but they do ...
... antebellum slave nar- rative sharpened its focus and became an increasingly popular and effective political means of fighting slavery . Slave narratives cannot be reduced to these different ideological influences , but they do ...
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... antebellum slave narrative, eighteenth-century narratives were more generically fluid. They were pub- lished and read as many things at once. The generic field includes spiritual autobiography, the conversion narrative, the providential ...
... antebellum slave narrative, eighteenth-century narratives were more generically fluid. They were pub- lished and read as many things at once. The generic field includes spiritual autobiography, the conversion narrative, the providential ...
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... antebellum era. The rise of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1831, and its heir, the American Anti- Slavery Society (AASS) in 1833, under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison, changed the political direction of antislavery ...
... antebellum era. The rise of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1831, and its heir, the American Anti- Slavery Society (AASS) in 1833, under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison, changed the political direction of antislavery ...
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... antebellum slave narrative. The genre now focused, often with painstaking vigilance, on the actual, daily conditions of slave life, because abolitionist readers and publishers desired – indeed required – that kind of detailed evidence ...
... antebellum slave narrative. The genre now focused, often with painstaking vigilance, on the actual, daily conditions of slave life, because abolitionist readers and publishers desired – indeed required – that kind of detailed evidence ...
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... antebellum culture was still highly religious ; evangelical institutions exerted significant influence on the world of antebellum publishing . Religious reading continued to play a major role in most Americans ' lives : bibles ...
... antebellum culture was still highly religious ; evangelical institutions exerted significant influence on the world of antebellum publishing . Religious reading continued to play a major role in most Americans ' lives : bibles ...
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The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative Audrey Fisch Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
1845 Narrative abolition abolitionism abolitionist African American African American writers American Slave antebellum antebellum slave narrative antislavery argued authenticity authors Beloved Black American literature Bondage captivity narrative century Christian context critics culture despite early Black American edition eighteenth eighteenth-century Ellen enslaved escape ex-slaves example experience fact fiction former slaves Franklin Frederick Douglass freedom Fugitive Slave Garrison Harriet Jacobs Henry Bibb Henry Louis Gates identity Incidents Interesting Narrative Jacobs's John master moral mother narrators Negro neo-slave narratives North Northup noted Olaudah Equiano Oxford University Press Picquet plantation political proslavery published race racial racist rative readers religious represent rhetorical sentimental novels sexual Slave Girl slave narrative slave trade slave women slaveholders slavery slavery's social spiritual autobiography story Stowe tell tion tive tradition Truth Vassa Venture Smith voice W. E. B. Du Bois white abolitionists William Wells Brown woman writing written York
Beliebte Passagen
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.