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Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form

By Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (NHC Fellow, 1998–99)

Slavery; Slave Narratives; African American Studies; American Literature; African American Literature

New York: Oxford University Press, 1999

From the publisher’s description:

NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, NeoSlave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent the crucial cultural debates that arose during the sixties.

Subjects
Literature / Literary Criticism / Slavery / Slave Narratives / African American Studies / American Literature / African American Literature /

Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. (NHC Fellow, 1998–99). Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form. Race and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.