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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"neo-slave narrative"”.
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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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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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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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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
… these 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 …
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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 …