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The Slave's Narrative.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1991Copyright date: ©1991Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (385 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195362022
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Slave's NarrativeDDC classification:
  • 973.0496
LOC classification:
  • E444.S575 1985
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Language of Slavery -- 1. Written by Themselves: Views and Reviews, 1750-1861 -- The Life of Job Ben Solomon -- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African -- Written by Himself -- The Life and Adventures of a Fugitive Slave -- Narrative of James Williams -- The Narrative of Juan Manzano -- Narratives of Fugitive Slaves -- Life of Henry Bibb -- The Life and Bondage of Frederick Douglass -- Kidnapped and Ransomed -- Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself -- 2. The Slave Narratives as History -- On Dialect Usage -- The Art and Science of Reading WPA Slave Narratives -- History from Slave Sources -- Charles Chesnutt and the WPA Narratives: The Oral and Literate Roots of Afro-American Literature -- Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems -- Plantation Factories and the Slave Work Ethic -- The Making of a Fugitive Slave Narrative: Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom-A Case Study -- 3. The Slave Narratives as Literature -- I Was Born": Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature -- Three West African Writers of the 1780s -- Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery -- I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives -- Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave -- Text and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself -- The Slave Narrators and the Picaresque Mode: Archetypes for Modern Black Personae -- Singing Swords: The Literary Legacy of Slavery -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Language of Slavery -- 1. Written by Themselves: Views and Reviews, 1750-1861 -- The Life of Job Ben Solomon -- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African -- Written by Himself -- The Life and Adventures of a Fugitive Slave -- Narrative of James Williams -- The Narrative of Juan Manzano -- Narratives of Fugitive Slaves -- Life of Henry Bibb -- The Life and Bondage of Frederick Douglass -- Kidnapped and Ransomed -- Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself -- 2. The Slave Narratives as History -- On Dialect Usage -- The Art and Science of Reading WPA Slave Narratives -- History from Slave Sources -- Charles Chesnutt and the WPA Narratives: The Oral and Literate Roots of Afro-American Literature -- Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems -- Plantation Factories and the Slave Work Ethic -- The Making of a Fugitive Slave Narrative: Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom-A Case Study -- 3. The Slave Narratives as Literature -- I Was Born": Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature -- Three West African Writers of the 1780s -- Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery -- I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives -- Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave -- Text and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself -- The Slave Narrators and the Picaresque Mode: Archetypes for Modern Black Personae -- Singing Swords: The Literary Legacy of Slavery -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.

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