Journeys of the slave narrative in the early Americas / edited by Nicole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth.

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"This volume includes interdisciplinary essays on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on lesser known examples of the genre"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:New World studies.
Other Authors: Aljoe, Nicole N. (Editor)
Finseth, Ian Frederick (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Series:New World studies.
Subjects:
Slave narratives > America.
Slave narratives > History and criticism.
Slavery > America > History > 18th century.
Slavery > America > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > America > Biography.
America > Race relations > History > 18th century.
America > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:viii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Remapping the Early Slave Narrative / Nicole N. Aljoe
  • Irony and Modernity in the Early Slave Narrative : Bonds of Duty, Contracts of Meaning / Ian Finseth
  • Trials and Confessions of Fugitive Slave Narratives / Gretchen J. Woertendyke
  • "They Us'd Me Pretty Well" : Briton Hammon and Cross-Cultural Alliances in the Maritime Borderlands of the Florida Coast / Jeffrey Gagnon
  • Uncommon Sufferings : Rethinking Bondage in A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man / Keith Michael Green
  • Narrating an Indigestible Trauma : The Alimentary Grammar of Boyrereau Brinch's Middle Passage / Lynn R. Johnson
  • "The Most Perfect Picture of Cuban Slavery" : Transatlantic Bricolage in Manzano's and Madden's Poems by a Slave / R.J. Boutelle
  • Seeking a Righteous King : A Bahamian Runaway Slave in Cuba / Jose Guadalupe Ortega
  • Literary Form and Islamic Identity in The Life of Omar Ibn Said / Basima Kamel Shaheen
  • Coda: Animating Absence / Kristina Bross.