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Title:

The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative / edited by John Ernest.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 472 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Subject:

American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Slave narratives--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Slaves' writings, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--African American authors.
Slave narratives.
Slaves' writings, American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Other Authors:

Ernest, John, editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Slave narratives and historical memory / Mitch Kachun -- Slave narratives and archival research / Eric Gardner -- Slave narratives and historical understanding / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. -- Slave narratives and US legal history / Jeannine Marie DeLombard -- The WPA narratives as historical sources / Marie Jenkins Schwartz -- The other slave narratives: the Works Progress Administration interviews / Sharon Ann Musher -- The witness of African American folkways: the landscape of slave narratives / John Michael Vlach -- The slave narrative as material text / Teresa A. Goddu -- Reading communities: slave narratives and the discursive reader / Dwight A. McBride and Justin A. Joyce -- A reflection on the slave narrative and American literature / Kenneth W. Warren -- Slave narratives and visual culture / Marcus Wood -- Slave narratives, 1865-1900 / William L. Andrews -- "This horrible exhibition": sexuality in slave narratives / Aliyyah I. Abdur Rahman -- "There is might in each": slave narratives and Black feminism / DoVeanna S. Fulton -- "I rose a freeman": power, property, and the performance of manhood in slave narratives / Maurice O. Wallace -- Family and community in slave narratives / Brenda E. Stevenson -- Collaborative American slave narratives / Barbara McCaskill -- Environmental criticism and the slave narratives / Kimberly K. Smith -- Locating slave narratives / Rhondda Robinson Thomas -- Slave narratives and hemispheric studies / Winfried Siemerling -- Caribbean slave narratives / Nicole N. Aljoe -- Slave narratives, the Romantic imagination, and transatlantic literature / Helen Thomas -- "Puzzling the intervals": Blind Tom and the poetics of the sonic slave narrative / Daphne A. Brooks -- The truth of slave narratives: slavery's traces in postmemory narratives in postemancipation life / Joycelyn K. Moody.

Series:

[Oxford handbooks]

ISBN:

0199731489 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780199731480 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858610236

LCCN:

2013031306

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)