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Author:

Jordan, Margaret I.

Title:

African American servitude and historical imaginings : retrospective fiction and representation / Margaret I. Jordan.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xv, 284 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Johnson, Charles Richard,--1948---Middle passage.
Warren, Robert Penn,--1905---Band of angels.
Doctorow, E. L.,--1931---Ragtime.
Morrison, Toni.--Song of Solomon.
Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature
Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.
Domestics in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Slaves in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Imagining the past ; The African American servant : cultural artifact and agent in place -- What made Amantha lean? : racial fanaticism in the 1950s and the rationalization of slavery in Robert Penn Warren's Band of angels -- A washerwoman wreaks havoc : moral reckoning and the "national soul" in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime -- "Evolve or die" : rewriting "the disfiguring hand of servitude" in Charles Johnson's Middle passage -- Elegy for a dream : Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.

ISBN:

9781403964977 (hc : alk. paper)
1403964971 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54685988

LCCN:

2004044579

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)