The Cambridge companion to the African American slave narrative

The Cambridge companion to the African American slave narrative / edited by Audrey Fisch.

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 tr...

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Other Authors: Fisch, Audrey A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Slaves' writings, American > History and criticism.
Slave narratives.
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Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. The slave narrative and transnational abolitionism. The rise, development, and circulation of the slave narrative / Philip Gould ; Politics and political philosophy in the slave narrative / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. ; Olaudah Equiano : African British abolitionist and founder of the African American slave narrative / Vincent Carretta ; The slave narrative and the literature of abolition / Kerry Sinanan
  • pt. II. The slave narrative and Anglo-American literary traditions. Redeeming bondage : the captivity narrative and the spiritual autobiography in the African American slave narrative tradition / Yolanda Pierce ; The slave narrative and the revolutionary tradition of American autobiography / Robert S. Levine ; The slave narrative and sentimental literature / Cindy Weinstein
  • pt. III. The slave narrative and the African American literary tradition. The slave narrative and early Black American literature / Robert F. Reid-Pharr ; Telling slavery in "freedom's" time : post-Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance / Deborah E. McDowell ; Neo-slave narratives / Valerie Smith
  • pt. IV. The slave narrative and the politics of knowledge. Harriet Jacobs : a case history of authentication / Stephanie A. Smith ; Frederick Douglass's self-fashioning and the making of a representative American man / John Stauffer ; Beyond Douglass and Jacobs / John Ernest ; Black womanhood in North American women's slave narratives / Xiomara Santamarina.

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