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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... century, important cultural and philosophical changes facilitated the rise of antislavery movements. These developments are rich, complex, and usually fall under the rubric of “Enlightenment” ideology. The historian David Brion Davis ...
... century, important cultural and philosophical changes facilitated the rise of antislavery movements. These developments are rich, complex, and usually fall under the rubric of “Enlightenment” ideology. The historian David Brion Davis ...
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... century slave narrative : they helped to influence the genre's treatment of the black protagonist's physical and spiritual journey . Not until the organization of more radical antislavery societies in America during the 1830s and 1840s ...
... century slave narrative : they helped to influence the genre's treatment of the black protagonist's physical and spiritual journey . Not until the organization of more radical antislavery societies in America during the 1830s and 1840s ...
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... 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 tale, criminal con- fession, Indian ...
... 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 tale, criminal con- fession, Indian ...
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... century. But the material and economic realities of publication provide the most important context for understanding the religious qualities of early slave narratives. Evangelical groups like the Methodists and Baptists, who empha ...
... century. But the material and economic realities of publication provide the most important context for understanding the religious qualities of early slave narratives. Evangelical groups like the Methodists and Baptists, who empha ...
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... century, then, the demonstration of one's religious conversion and Christian feeling was an important convention of the slave narrative . This development registers the institutional and 15 The rise of the slave narrative.
... century, then, the demonstration of one's religious conversion and Christian feeling was an important convention of the slave narrative . This development registers the institutional and 15 The rise of the slave narrative.
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The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative Audrey Fisch Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative Audrey Fisch Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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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.