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 offers a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre. The volume begins 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 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 pays 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 anatomizes the powerful WPA recordings of interviews with former slaves during the late 1930s. With essays on the genre's imaginative afterlife, its final essays 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 provides 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.
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Ernest is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature. He is the author of Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature and Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861.
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Professor of EnglishProfessor of English, University of Delaware
The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative ; Contents ; John Ernest, Introduction ; Historical Fractures ; 1. Mitch Kachun. Slave Narratives and Historical Memory ; 2. Eric Gardner. Slave Narratives and Archival Research ; 3. Dickson Bruce. Slave Narratives and Historical Understanding ; 4. Jeannine DeLombard. Slave Narratives and U.S. Legal History ; Layered Testimonies ; 5. Marie Jenkins Schwartz. The WPA Narratives as Historical Sources ; 6. Sharon Ann Musher. The Other Slave Narratives: the Works Progress Administration Interviews ; 7. Elizabeth Regosin. Lost in the Archives: The Pension Bureau Files ; 8. John Michael Vlach. The Witness of African American Folkways: The Landscape of Slave Narratives ; Textual Bindings ; 9. Teresa Goddu. Slave Narratives as Texts ; 10. Dwight McBride and Justin A. Joyce. Reading Communities: Slave Narratives and the Discursive Reader ; 11. Kenneth Warren. Slave Narratives and American Literary Studies ; 12. Marcus Wood. Slave Narratives and Visual Culture ; 13. William Andrews. Post-Emancipation Slave Narratives ; Experience and Authority ; 14. Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman. "This Horrible Exhibition": Sexuality in Slave Narratives ; 15. DoVeanna Fulton. "There is Might in Each": Slave Narratives and Black Feminism ; 16. Maurice O. Wallace. "I Rose a Freeman": Power, Property and the Performance of Manhood in Slave Narratives ; 17. Brenda Stevenson. Beyond the Protagonist: Families and Communities in Slave Narratives ; 18. Barbara McCaskill. Collaborative Slave Narratives ; Environments and Migrations ; 19. Kimberly Smith. The Ecology of Slave Narratives ; 20. Rhondda R. Thomas. Locating Slave Narratives ; 21. Winfried Siemerling. Slave Narratives and Hemispheric Studies ; 22. Nicole N. Aljoe. Caribbean Slave Narratives ; 23. Helen Thomas. Slave Narratives and Transatlantic Literature ; Echoes and Traces ; 24. Daphne Brooks. Slave Narratives and the Performance of Race and Freedom ; 25. Joycelyn Moody. "The Truth of Slave Narratives": Slavery's Traces in Postmemory
