The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative / edited by John Ernest.

"Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative will offer a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre. The volume will begin with articles th...

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Other Authors: Ernest, John (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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Physical Description:xiv, 472 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction / John Ernest. 
505 0 |a part 1. Historical fractures -- Slave narratives and historical memory / Mitch Kachun -- Slave narratives and archival research / Eric Gardner -- Slave narratives and historical understanding / Dickson Bruce -- Slave narratives and U.S. legal history / Jeannine DeLombard. 
505 0 |a part 2. Layered testimonies -- The WPA narratives as historical sources / Marie Jenkins Schwartz -- The other slave narratives : the Works Progress Administration interviews / Sharon Ann Musher -- Lost in the archives : the pension bureau files / Elizabeth Regosin -- The witness of African American folkways : the landscape of slave narratives / John Michael Vlach. 
505 0 |a part 3. Textual bindings -- Slave narratives as texts / Teresa Goddu -- Reading communities : slave narratives and the discursive reader / Dwight McBride and Justin A. Joyce -- Slave narratives and American literary studies / Kenneth Warren -- Slave Narratives and visual culture / Marcus Wood -- Post-Emancipation slave narratives / William Andrews. 
505 0 |a part 4. Experience and authority -- "This horrible exhibition" : sexuality in slave narratives / Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman -- "There is might in each" : slave narratives and Black feminism / DoVeanna Fulton -- "I rose a freeman" : power, property and the performance of manhood in slave narratives / Maurice O. Wallace -- Beyond the protagonist : families and communities in slave narratives / Brenda Stevenson -- Collaborative slave narratives / Barbara McCaskill. 
505 0 |a part 5. Environments and migrations -- The ecology of slave narratives / Kimberly Smith -- Locating slave narratives / Rhondda R. Thomas -- Slave narratives and hemispheric studies / Winfried Siemerling Caribbean slave narratives / Nicole N. Aljoe -- Slave narratives and Transatlantic literature / Helen Thomas. 
505 0 |a part 6. Echoes and traces -- Slave narratives and the performance of race and freedom / Daphne Brooks -- "The truth of slave narratives" : slavery's traces in postmemory / Joycelyn Moody. 
520 |a "Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative will offer a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre. The volume will begin with articles that consider the fundamental concerns of gender, sexuality, community, and the Christian ethos of suffering and redemption that are central to any understanding of slave narratives. The chapters that follow will interrogate the various agendas behind the production of both pre- and post-Emancipation narratives and take up the various interpretive problems they pose. Strategic omissions and veiled gestures were often necessary in these life accounts as they revealed disturbing, too-painful truths, far beyond what white audiences were prepared to hear. While touching upon the familiar canonical autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, the Handbook will pay more attention to the under-studied narratives of Josiah Henson, Sojourner Truth, William Grimes, Henry Box Brown, and other often-overlooked accounts. In addition to the literary autobiographies of bondage, the volume will anatomize the powerful WPA recordings of interviews with former slaves during the late 1930s. With essays on the genre's imaginative afterlife, its final essays will chart the emergence and development of neoslave narratives, most notably in Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner, Toni Morrisons's Beloved and Octavia Butler's provocative science fiction novel, Kindred. In short, the Handbook will provide a long-overdue assessment of the state of the genre and the vital scholarship that continues to grow around it, work that is offering some of the most provocative analysis emerging out of the literary studies discipline as a whole."--Publisher's description. 
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