Isbn: 9780801839481 - slavery and the literary imagination (selected papers from the english institute, band 13) (9 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)--treated in chapted by Jamkes Olney and William L. Andrews--to Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1984). Among the contributors, Arnold Rampersad reads W.E.B. DuBois's classic work The Souls of Black Folk (1903) as a response to Booker T. Washington's Up from Salvery (1901). Hazel V. Carby examines novels of slavery and novels of sharecropping and questions the critical tendency to comflate the two, thereby also conflating the nineteenth century wiith the twentieth, the rural with the urban.Although works by Afro-American writers are the primary focus, the authors also examine antislavery novels by white women. Hortense J. Spillers gives extensive attention to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, in juxtaposition with Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada; Carolyn L. Karcher readers Lydia Maria Child's A Romance of the Republic as an abolitionist vision of America's racial destiny.In a concluding chapter, Deborah E. McDowell's reading of Dessa Rose reveals how slavery and freedom--dominant themes in nineteenth-century black literature--continue to command the attention of contemporary authors.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. McDowell s reading of Dessa Rose reveals how slavery and freedom-dominant themes in nineteenth-century black literature-continue to command the attention of contemporary authors.KlappentextrnrnSeven noted scholars examine slave narratives an.