Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative

Name: Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
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ISBN: 9780521615266

ISBN-10: 0521615267

ISBN-13: 9780521615266

Edition: 2007

Authors: Audrey A. Fisch

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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…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.90" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of contributors


Acknowledgments


Chronology


Introduction




The Slave Narrative and Transnational Abolitionism



The rise, development, and circulation of the slave narrative




Politics and political philosophy in the slave narrative




Olaudah Equiano: African British abolitionist and founder of the African American slave narrative




The slave narrative and the literature of abolition




The Slave Narrative and Anglo-American Literary Traditions



Redeeming bondage: the captivity narrative and the spiritual autobiography in the African American slave narrative tradition




The slave narrative and the revolutionary tradition of American autobiography




The slave narrative and sentimental literature




The Slave Narrative and the African American Literary Tradition



The slave narrative and early Black American literature




Telling slavery in "freedom's" time: post-Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance




Neo-slave narratives




The Slave Narrative and the Politics of Knowledge



Harriet Jacobs: a case history of authentication




Frederick Douglass's self-fashioning and the making of a Representative American man




Beyond Douglass and Jacobs




Black womanhood in North American women's slave narratives



Guide to further reading


Index