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Author:

Spaulding, A. Timothy.

Title:

Re-forming the past : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative / A. Timothy Spaulding.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

x, 148 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Johnson, Charles Richard,--1948---History.--History.
Reed, Ishmael,--1938---Flight to Canada.
Butler, Octavia E.--Kindred.
Morrison, Toni.--Beloved.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, American--History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
African Americans in literature
Slaves in literature.
Fictie.
Amerikaans.
Negers.
Slaven (arbeid)
Slavernij.
Postmodernisme.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart -- The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse -- Re-forming Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.

ISBN:

9780814290842 (CD-ROM)
0814290841 (CD-ROM)
9780814210062 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814210066 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57669997

LCCN:

2005003203

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)