Calls and responses: the American novel of slavery since Gone with the wind
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Main Author: Ryan, Tim A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2008
Series:Southern literary studies
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index
Designs against Tara: representing slavery in American culture, 1936-1944 -- From Tara to Turner: slavery and slave psychologies in American fiction and history, 1945-1968 -- You shall see how a slave was made a woman: the development of the contemporary novel of slavery, 1976-1987 -- Scarlett and Mammy done gone: complications of the contemporary novel of slavery, 1986-2003 -- Mapping the unrepresentable: slavery fiction in the new millennium
In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed to the traditional, racist fiction (and history) created by whites, Ryan suggests that discourses about American slavery are--and have always been--defined by connections rather than disjunctions. Ryan contends that African American writers didn't merely reject and move beyond traditional portrayals of
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 260 pages)
ISBN:0807133221
0807134309
9780807133224
9780807134306

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