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Voices of the fugitives : runaway slave stories and their fictions of self-creation / Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bland, Sterling Lecater, Jr., 1961-
- Series:
- Contributions in Afro-American and African studies 0069-9624 ; no. 199.
- Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 199
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- American prose literature--African American authors.
- Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography--History and criticism.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Enslaved persons' writings, American.
- United States.
- American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- Enslaved persons' writings, American--History and criticism.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Passing (Identity) in literature.
- Fugitive slaves in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Self in literature.
- Autobiography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Situates close analytical readings of individual slave narratives within the larger context of social, political, cultural, and literary conditions influencing the fugitive slave narrative genre.
- Contents:
- Preface: Reading in the Breach xiii
- Part I The Call...: the Literary and Cultural Landscape
- Introduction: Let the World Dream Otherwise: The Literary Masks of Fugitive Slave Stories 3
- Chapter 1 Dismantling the Master's House: The Cultural Context 25
- Part II ...And the Response: Speaking for Themselves
- Chapter 2 Religion, Revolt, and the Commodification of Language: The Limitations of "Voice" in The Confessions of Nat Turner 43
- Chapter 3 "Behold a Man Transformed": Sacred Language and the Secular Self in Frederick Douglass's Narrative 65
- Chapter 4 Authority, Power, and Determination of the Will: The Dilemma of Rhetorical Ownership in Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 101
- Chapter 5 Ambiguity, Passing, and the Politics of Color: The Reconstruction of Race in William and Ellen Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom 139
- Epilogue: Of Being and Nothingness: Caliban's Reprise 159.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313311692
- 0275967077
- OCLC:
- 42765222
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