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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Slave Narrative"”.
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<b><em>Black Beauty</em></b> as Antebellum Slave Narrative
… from an intuitive notion. While reading the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I could not shake a "curiously different sense of familiarity" that took me home to my well-worn copy of Black Beauty. The more I explored a relationship between Douglass's Narrative and Black Beauty, the …
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Critical Exploration of the Neo-Slave Narrative in Selected Walker and Morrison Novels
… and Toni Morrison’s <em>Beloved</em> as Neo-Slave Narratives.<em> </em>These extraordinary authors reveal slave history in their novels. Although these novels deal with neo-slave narratives, they closely identify with history of African American enslavement. Walker and Morrison express …
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The Afro-British Slave Narrative: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of Abolition
… Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), and Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)to illustrate how black rhetoric was appropriated by whites to fulfill their own kairotic desires. By examining the …
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Seeking Freedom through Self-Love in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved
Toni Morrison chose to revisit the neo-slave narrative genre twenty-five years after the publication of Beloved with A Mercy in 2008. With these two texts, Morrison offers her readers one story that shows the descent into slavery and one that shows progression towards freedom. The purpose of this …
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Signifying in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Harriet Jacobs' Use of African American English
Research on Harriet Jacobs' slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl exploded after 1981, when Professor Jean Fagin Yellin discovered textual evidence for refuting then-current claims that Lydia Maria Child was the author of this engrossing story. Child was indeed the book's editor, …
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Landscape and Performance In the Narratives of Frederick Douglass, Hannah Crafts, and Henry Bibb
… If, as historian John Ernest asserts, the slave narrative is a performative genre, then the readings and (misreadings) of landscape the writers present is equally a performance. While vocabularies of landscape are developed, the interpretive/inscriptive performance of the writer instructs …
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FROM RIVER ROAD PLANTATIONS TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: BRINGING THE TRUE STORY OF AMERICAN SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT RACIAL DIVIDE
… This essay traces that divide back to American slavery, using a visit to five historical plantations and Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> to illustrate the persistence of injustice beyond slavery to Jim Crow laws, color-blind rhetoric, and mass incarceration. At each …
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The politics of visuality in Beloved and The Colour Purple
The brutal history of slavery in America makes literary engagement with slave experience a potent exercise. Contemporary writers seeking to engage with this history face many difficulties, writing in the wake of the traditional slave narrative which was characterised by limited perspective and …
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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
… movements and Black Arts Movement texts, neo-slave narrative novels, and works of black speculative fiction illustrate the flaws and possibilities of each movement's combination of aesthetics and politics. "Primitive" and "industrial" tropes form the backbone of this comparison because they …
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The medi(atis)ation of the slave experience: a journey from page to screen
Considering the increase in slave films in recent years, this interdisciplinary project explores the cross-generic development of nineteenth-century slave narratives into their contemporary cinematic iterations. Continuities and changes in the (self-) representation of African Americans are …
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“Coloured” Pasts in Post-Apartheid South African Fiction: Slavery, Gender, and Anachronism
… a set of novels concerned with the history of slavery, “coloured” identity and the politics of gender and sexuality in post-apartheid South Africa: Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit, Anne Landsman’s The Devil’s Chimney, Rayda Jacobs’s The Slave Book, and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light. Each …
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Biopolitics, Borders and the Populations of Literary Space in Two Post-millennial Black British Novels: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Andrea Levy’s The Long Song
… Chapter two examines the spatial management of slaves on the colonial plantation in The Long Song. This chapter is also concerned with literary space and explores the role of colonial literatures such as slave narratives, missionary pamphlets and travelogues, in creating and reinforcing racial …
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"Dropped ""from the clouds"": Cincinnati and manumission among the fancy and newly freed, 1831-1901"
This dissertation argues that numerous ex-slave mistresses and the children they produced with white men thoughtfully rebuilt their lives as newly freed people by capitalizing on earlier, sometimes ongoing, ties to white men, but also by relying on themselves and others sharing their circumstances. …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
… chapter, I explore one facet of Octavia Butler's narrative examination of sexual co-option and her subsequent implied challenge to definitions of feminine morality through the character Lilith who appears throughout Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy. Specifically, I explore this subject using Harriet …
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After Mary Prince: navigating 'authenticity' in 20th-century diasporic women's migration narratives
… consideration of Mary Prince's 1831 Caribbean slave narrative in critical readings of 20th-century women's migration novels. Specifically, I offer readings of how the signs "gender" and "labor" are strategically deployed and manipulated in contexts of migration. Such deployments and …
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Tragic mercies and other journeys to redemption: defining the Morrisonian tragedy
… under repressive systems such as American slavery. Morrison reconfigures tragedy to illuminate a space that she calls the “tragic mode” in which her characters achieve a form of catharsis and revelation. I use Morrison’s signification of tragedy to build a theoretical paradigm that I call …
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“The Sunlit Prison of the American Dream”: Representing Carcerality in Contemporary American Fiction
… with an analysis of the roots of carcerality in slavery through selected works by Jesmyn Ward and Colson Whitehead, exploring how the genre of the slave narrative was shaped by its historical context and how it has influenced contemporary writing about prisons. I then discuss the impact of …
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