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

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"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]
Subjects:
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Slave narratives > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Enslaved persons' writings, American > History and criticism.
Schwarze.
Sklave.
Literatur.
Sklaverei.
American prose literature > African American authors.
Slave narratives.
Enslaved persons' writings, American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
Genre:
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
Physical Description:xiv, 472 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / John Ernest.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.