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1 online resource (x, 148 pages) |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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. |
Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
Subject |
Slaves in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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United States. |
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Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy fiction, American. |
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Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Historical fiction, American. |
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American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Morrison, Toni. Beloved. |
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Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. |
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Reed, Ishmael, 1938- Flight to Canada. |
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Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948- -- Knowledge -- History. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books. .
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Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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ISBN |
9780814272756 |
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0814272754 |
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0814210066 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814210062 |
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