Unlike 19th century slave narratives, many recent novel-like texts about slavery deploy ironic narrative strategies, innovative structural features, and playful cruelty. This study analyzes the postmodern aesthetics common to seven tales of slavery from the United States, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Cuba, abd Colombia from authors including Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet, Toni Morrison, and Charles Johnson.
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"Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas attempts something that few literary critics have been in a position to do: to examine comparatively novels about slavery across the English, French, and Spanish literary traditions in the U.S. and the Caribbean." -- George Handley, Brigham Young University Mississippi Quarterly
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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1 farbige Abbildung
1 Illustrations, color
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Höhe: 222 mm
Breite: 145 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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978-0-8153-3853-6 (9780815338536)
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Acknowledgments Introduction: New Slavery Novels: Nation-ness and Imagination in the New World Contet 1. Using American Slavery to Construct Black Aesthetics 2. Dissembling History: Postmodern Irony as Narrative Strategy 3. Re(-)fusing the New World in Accounts of the middle Passage 4. Oscillatory Stuctures, Runny Away, and (Dis)Locating the Self Conclusion: Problematics of the Questioning of Identity Works Cited
