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Author |
: Ashraf H. A. Rushdy |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195125337 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195125339 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Neo-slave Narratives by : Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave 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 cultural debates that arose during the sixties."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Valerie Babb |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 499 |
Release |
: 2017-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107061729 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107061725 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of the African American Novel by : Valerie Babb
This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.
Author |
: Audrey Fisch |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2007-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139827591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139827596 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative by : Audrey Fisch
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.
Author |
: Kimberly Drake |
Publisher |
: Salem Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1619253976 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781619253971 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Slave Narrative by : Kimberly Drake
Edited by Kimberly Drake, who directs the writing program and teaches writing and American literature and culture at Scripps College, this volume includes chapters on the more widely read slave narratives, including those by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Solomon Northup, but also relatively lesser-known narratives, such as neo-slave narrative novels and slave narratives about slavery outside the U.S. Individual chapters will provide researchers with a wide range of approaches to the slave narrative genre, and the volume's Preface will discuss the history of the slave narrative genre from its origins to the present day, where it makes its way into popular films and novels.
Author |
: Elizabeth A. Beaulieu |
Publisher |
: Praeger |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 1999-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015042827215 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative by : Elizabeth A. Beaulieu
The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history from the perspective of the African American woman, most specifically the nineteenth century enslaved mother. The writers considered in this study—Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler—explore American slavery through the lens of gender, both to interrogate the myth that enslaved women, denied the privilege of having a gender identity by the institution of slavery, were in fact genderless, and to celebrate the acts of resistance which enabled enslaved women to mother in the fullest sense of the term. The volume begins with an overview of historical representations of slavery in America, from the slave narrative itself to the revisionist scholarship of the 1960s. The book then examines several individual neo-slave narratives, such as Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Williams' Dessa Rose (1986), Morrison's Beloved (1987), Cooper's Family (1991), Jones' Corregidora (1975), and Butler's Kindred (1979). What the women in these novels have in common is the fact that they mother; what the writers have in common is a tendency to utilize subversive strategies such as reversal, blurring, and the creation of myth to dramatize gender identity and to highlight the varied nature of motherhood as enslaved women experienced it. The final chapter evaluates the influence of the neo-slave narrative on American literature in general and on popular perceptions and misperceptions of African American women.
Author |
: Yogita Goyal |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2019-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479879120 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479879126 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Runaway Genres by : Yogita Goyal
Winner, 2021 René Wellek Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award, given by the International Society for the Study of Narrative Honorable Mention, 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize, given by the Modern Language Association Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of Paul Beatty and Mat Johnson, modern slave narratives from Sudan to Sierra Leone, and the new Afropolitan diaspora of writers like Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie all are woven into Goyal’s argument for the slave narrative as a new world literary genre, exploring the full complexity of this new ethical globalism. From the humanitarian spectacles of Kony 2012 and #BringBackOurGirls through gothic literature, Runaway Genres unravels, for instance, how and why the African child soldier has now appeared as the afterlife of the Atlantic slave. Goyal argues that in order to fathom forms of freedom and bondage today—from unlawful detention to sex trafficking to the refugee crisis to genocide—we must turn to contemporary literature, which reveals how the literary forms used to tell these stories derive from the antebellum genre of the slave narrative. Exploring the ethics and aesthetics of globalism, the book presents alternative conceptions of human rights, showing that the revival and proliferation of slave narratives offers not just an occasion to revisit the Atlantic past, but also for re-narrating the global present. In reassessing these legacies and their ongoing relation to race and the human, Runaway Genres creates a new map with which to navigate contemporary black diaspora literature.
Author |
: Dionne Brand |
Publisher |
: Vintage Canada |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2011-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307367617 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307367614 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis At the Full and Change of the Moon by : Dionne Brand
In 1824, on the island of Trinidad, Marie Ursule, queen of a secret society of militant slaves, plots a mass suicide—a quiet, passionate act of revolt. But she cannot bring herself to kill her small daughter, Bola, whom she smuggles away in the early dawn light. As Bola's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren spill out across the world to America, Canada and Europe, they find their lives both haunted and vindicated by the dreams and passions of their defiant ancestor. The interconnected stories of six generations of Marie Ursule's descendants form a lush, beguiling and beautifully told history of dispossession, and bring this Governor General's Award-winning writer into the front rank of the world's novelists.
Author |
: Valérie Croisille |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2021-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527577541 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527577546 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma by : Valérie Croisille
This book concentrates on six neo-slave narratives written by late 20th and early 21st century black American women: Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Gayl Jones’ Corregidora, Joan California Cooper’s Family, and Athena Lark’s Avenue of Palms. It explores the process of re(-)membering of the black female characters in these novels, and shows how these authors manage to both write the transgenerational trauma of slavery and write through it, enabling black American women’s voices to be heard. This analysis of famous classics, as well as less-known books, demonstrates how black American women’s traumatic memory of slavery is inscribed in a transgenerational black female body. Conjuring up questions of narratology and intertextuality, it highlights how working-through takes the form of a narrativization of this traumatic memory by diverse means. This book also reflects upon the links between the collective and personal psyches by laying emphasis on the ineluctable intertwining of national history and individual destiny.
Author |
: Jana Olejniczak |
Publisher |
: GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 23 |
Release |
: 2021-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783346453488 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3346453480 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Genres of Slave Narratives and Neo-Slave Narratives. Development, Characteristics and Functions by : Jana Olejniczak
Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Wuppertal, course: Black British Neo-Slave Narratives, language: English, abstract: This paper focuses on the importance of remembering the slave trade in all his cruel facets. Therefore, the genre of the original slave narrative and the genre of the neo-slave narrative is introduced. The second part of the paper provides an analysis of the novel 'Blonde Roots', by Bernardine Evaristo (2009). The colonial era and the legacy of slavery left a serious mark on the whole world; Especially present-day Great Britain has to face the consequences of its role in colonialism ever since. Between 1500 and 1900, nearly 12 million African slaves were brought from their homeland to America and to Europe. Via the Transatlantic Slave Trade, British ships sent rare cargoes, like rum, cotton wool and gunpowder to Africa, in exchange for potential slaves. When the slave ships arrived in the 'New World'2, African slaves were forced brutally to harvest coffee, sugar and tobacco on plantations. Eventually, the British ships, filled with the plantation yield, settled to their home ports in Europe.
Author |
: Bertram D. Ashe |
Publisher |
: University of Washington Press |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2020-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780295746654 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0295746653 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination by : Bertram D. Ashe
From Kara Walker’s hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty’s bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead’s literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele’s body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challenging “alternate takes” on American slavery. These artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and representational legacies of slavery to imagine possibilities and change. The essays in this volume explore the conceptions of freedom and blackness that undergird these narratives, critically examining how artists growing up in the post–Civil Rights era have nuanced slavery in a way that is distinctly different from the first wave of neo-slave narratives that emerged from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination positions post-blackness as a productive category of analysis that brings into sharp focus recent developments in black cultural productions across various media. These ten essays investigate how millennial black cultural productions trouble long-held notions of blackness by challenging limiting scripts. They interrogate political as well as formal interventions into established discourses to demonstrate how explorations of black identities frequently go hand in hand with the purposeful refiguring of slavery’s prevailing tropes, narratives, and images. A V Ethel Willis White Book