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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"slave narratives"”.
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Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the reconstruction of early modern conceptions of political freedom
… and bondage found within African American Slave narratives be read as political philosophic claims? How would one position the perspectives on liberty and liberalism found in slave narratives within the nexus of the history of political philosophy? It is my view that the arguments contained …
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“'They was Things Past the Tellin’: A Reconsideration of Sexuality and Memory in the Ex-Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project"
… (FWP) employees began interviewing formerly enslaved men and women, allowing them to speak publicly of their experiences under slavery. Defying racism and the repressions of Jim Crow, ex-slaves discussed intimate details of their lives. Many researchers considered these interviews unreliable, …
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Voices from the Coolest Corner of Hell: A Content Analysis of Slave Narratives in the Study of Creolization in the Education of 19th Century African American Slaves
… functioned as a type of school for the slave. Similarly, in 1976, Anthony Gerald Albanese examined the plantation system as an institution that conditioned the behaviors of both slaves and slave owners. I maintain that the plantation system was not only an educative agency that …
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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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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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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
… as distinct. Drawing particularly on captivity narratives, slave narratives, and other forms of autobiography, I show that white, Native American, and African American authors' conceptions of themselves and the nation were relational, dependent on dynamic exchanges across ethnic lines. My …
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Perfectly White: Light-Skinned Slaves and the Abolition Movement 1835 - 1865
… at American abolitionists use of light-skinned slaves to prove to Northerners slavery was an abomination. This project is also a study of the social constructions of race and the meanings of skin color in Northern and Southern American societies. This research draws mostly upon primary sources …
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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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Behind the mask: another perspective on the slavewomen's oral narratives
… the last twenty years, studies in Afro-American slavery have given special attention to the slave community and culture. They have emphasized the slaves' control over their lives, while glossing over the brutality of the institution of slavery. Slave women have been ignored until very recently, …
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"Don't let de paddle rollers catch you": punishment, control, and resistance in the slave South
This thesis explores the nature of white-slave relations in the U.S. South during the thirty-year period that preceded the Civil War. It asks one central question: How did slaveowners, overseers, patrollers, and nonslaveowners attempt to physically and psychologically punish slaves and control …
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Dream of an elsewhere: contemporary African American travel writing
… emancipatory journey to freedom, as recited in slave narratives, decentred the coercive migrations of the slave trade by coupling the subversive act of self-directed movement through geographical space with a collective understanding of liberty. Wanderings in the period after the Civil War, …
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"Dat's one chile of mine you ain't never gonna sell": Gynecological Resistance within the Plantation Community
… resistance as an integral part of the slave community has frequently been ignored in studies of the plantation South. Slave women actively engaged in both collective and individual acts of gynecological resistance. This work, "Dat's one chile of mine you ain't never gonna sell: …
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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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"""What I Did Is Who I Am"": African American Women and Resistance to Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New England"
… in New England beginning in the 1630's, the enslaved African woman possessed a ""self-conscious"" identity that was both individual and collective. My dissertation uncovers acts of resistance and strategies of survival that enslaved New England women used to fashion an identity which enabled …
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Creating New Suns: Early Examples of Afrofuturist Literature
… the following questions: How does the enslavement of African/ African Americans and its aftermath play out in early African American literature? How do African Americans writers situate and present their contemporary circumstances to audiences?</p> <p>And finally, how do African American …
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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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Aural fictions: Sound in African American literature
… with Frederick Douglass's descriptions of the slave songs and working through depictions of jazz in the early moments of the Civil Rights movement, I show that the aural dimension of African American culture has mediated black writers' engagement with written public discourse. Looking at such …
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The responsibility of clothing slaves in the United States as described in slave petitions, 1775 to 1867
… analysis of eighteenth and nineteenth century slave petitions identified slave dress terms and descriptors by type and frequency and a descriptive analysis of slave dress petitions revealed the following themes: the expense and burden attributed to clothing slaves, slave dress neglect, hiring …
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