Description: Slavery and the Literary Imagination, Paperback by McDowell, Deborah E.; Rampersad, Arnold (EDT), ISBN 0801839483, ISBN-13 9780801839481, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglasss Narrative (1845)—treated in chapted by Jamkes Olney and William L. Andrews—to Sherley Anne Williamss Dessa Rose (1984). Among the contributors, Arnold Rampersad reads . DuBoiss classic work The Souls of Black Folk (1903) as a response to Booker T. Washingtons Up from Salvery (1901). Hazel V. Carby examines novels of slavery and novels of sharecropping and questions the critical tendency to comflate the two, thereby also conflating the nineteenth century wiith the twentieth, the rural with the urban.
Although works by Afro-American writers are the primary focus, the authors also examine antislavery novels by white women. Hortense J. Spillers gives extensive attention to Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin, in juxtaposition with Ishmael Reeds Flight to Canada; Carolyn L. Karcher readers Lydia Maria Childs A Romance of the Republic as an abolitionist vision of Americas racial destiny.
In a concluding chapter, Deborah E. McDowells reading of Dessa Rose reveals how slavery and freedom—dominant themes in nineteenth-century black literature—continue to command the attention of contemporary authors.
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Book Title: Slavery and the Literary Imagination
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Slavery and the Literary Imagination
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Subject: Slavery, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 1989
Item Height: 0.6 in
Features: Reprint
Item Weight: 7.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Author: Arnold Rampersad
Item Length: 8 in
Series: Selected Papers from the English Institute Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
