Neo-slave Narratives
Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form
1st Edition
Published on 2. December 1999
297 pages
978-0-19-802900-7 (ISBN)
Description
NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, NeoSlave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent the crucial cultural debates that arose during the sixties.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- One: Master Texts and Slave Narratives: Race, Form, and Intertextuality in the Field of Cultural Production
- Two: Toward 1968: The Discourse in Formation
- Three: The Discourse Mobilized: The Debate over William Styrons The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Four: The Possession of Resistance: Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
- Five: Meditations on Story: Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
- Six: Serving the Form, Conserving the Order: Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale
- Seven: Revising the Form, Misserving the Order: Charles Johnson's Middle Passage
- Eight: Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
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