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Author Spaulding, A. Timothy.

Title Re-forming the past : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative / A. Timothy Spaulding.

Publication Info. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  PS374.S58 S66 2005    Available  ---
Description x, 148 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart -- The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse -- Re-forming Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- African American authors.
Johnson, Charles, 1948- -- Knowledge and learning -- History.
Johnson, Charles, 1948-
History.
Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American.
Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
Postmodernism (Literature)
United States.
Reed, Ishmael, 1938- Flight to Canada.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Butler, Octavia E. Kindred.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
ISBN 0814210066 cloth alkaline paper
0814290841 CD-ROM