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Author Cowan, William Tynes, 1963-

Title The slave in the swamp : disrupting the plantation narrative / William Tynes Cowan.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2005.
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 285 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Literary criticism and cultural theory
Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.
Contents Introduction: into the dismal swamp -- Identity and the dynamics of space -- Sambo, Nat, and the gentleman planter: notions of self on the plantation -- The slave in the swamp: claiming space -- John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow barn and the birth of plantation literature -- Literary swamps of the 1850s -- Proslavery writers in the wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- African American views of the swamp: slave narratives and early fiction -- Stowe's Dred and the discourse of violence in the 1850s -- Reconciliation and the lost cause -- Dredging the swamps: Joel Chandler Harris and the packaging of African American folklore -- The cult of the lost cause and Thomas Nelson Page's "No Haid Pawn" -- George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes and plantation narrative(s) -- Conclusion: the body of the maroon.
Summary First published in 2005.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
Southern States.
Fugitive slaves in literature.
Fugitive slaves in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Southern States -- In literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Cowan, William Tynes, 1963- Slave in the swamp 0415972167 (DLC) 2004024935 (OCoLC)57068672
ISBN 9781135470524 (electronic book)
1135470529 (electronic book)
1299867375 (e-book)
9781299867376 (e-book)
9780203958483 (e-book)
0203958489 (e-book)
0415972167
9780415972161

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