Re-forming the past : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative

Re-forming the past : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative / A. Timothy Spaulding.

"In Re-Forming the Past, A. Timothy Spaulding examines contemporary revisions of slave narratives that use elements of the fantastic to redefine the historical and literary constructions of American slavery. In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, postmodern...

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Main Author: Spaulding, A. Timothy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Johnson, Charles, > 1948- > Knowledge > History.
Reed, Ishmael, > 1938- > Flight to Canada.
Butler, Octavia E. > Kindred.
Morrison, Toni. > Beloved.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American > History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
African Americans in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart
  • The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred
  • Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse
  • Re-forming Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage
  • Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.

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