Format:
1 Online-Ressource (385 p)
ISBN:
9780195362022
Content:
Contents -- Introduction: The Language of Slavery -- 1. Written by Themselves: Views and Reviews, 1750-1861 -- The Life of Job Ben Solomon -- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African -- Written by Himself -- The Life and Adventures of a Fugitive Slave -- Narrative of James Williams -- The Narrative of Juan Manzano -- Narratives of Fugitive Slaves -- Life of Henry Bibb -- The Life and Bondage of Frederick Douglass -- Kidnapped and Ransomed -- Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself -- 2. The Slave Narratives as History
Content:
On Dialect Usage -- The Art and Science of Reading WPA Slave Narratives -- History from Slave Sources -- Charles Chesnutt and the WPA Narratives: The Oral and Literate Roots of Afro-American Literature -- Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems -- Plantation Factories and the Slave Work Ethic -- The Making of a Fugitive Slave Narrative: Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom-A Case Study -- 3. The Slave Narratives as Literature -- I Was Born"": Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature -- Three West African Writers of the 1780s
Content:
Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery -- I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives -- Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave -- Text and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself -- The Slave Narrators and the Picaresque Mode: Archetypes for Modern Black Personae -- Singing Swords: The Literary Legacy of Slavery -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V
Content:
W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195362022
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195066562
Additional Edition:
Print version Davis, Charles T The Slave's Narrative Cary : Oxford University Press,c1991
Language:
English
Keywords:
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