Re-Forming the Past : History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative /

Re-Forming the Past : History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative /

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"In Re-Forming the Past, A. Timothy Spaulding examines contemporary revisions of slave narratives that use elements of the fantastic to redefine the historical and literary constructions of American slavery. In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, postmodern...

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Main Author: Spaulding, A. Timothy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Johnson, Charles, > 1948-
Morrison, Toni. > Beloved.
Butler, Octavia E. > Kindred.
Reed, Ishmael, > 1938- > Flight to Canada.
Johnson, Charles Richard, > 1948- > Et l'histoire.
Johnson, Charles Richard, > 1948- > Knowledge > History.
Johnson, Charles, > 1948- > Knowledge > History.
Roman.
Slaves in literature.
Postmodernisme.
Slavernij.
Slaven (arbeid)
Negers.
Amerikaans.
Fictie.
Sklave > Motiv
Schwarze
Das Fantastische
Slavery in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Historical fiction, American.
Fantasy fiction, American.
History.
American fiction > African American authors.
American fiction.
African Americans in literature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Postmodernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Roman fantastique americain > Histoire et critique.
Roman historique americain > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Flight to Canada (Reed, Ishmael)
Beloved (Morrison, Toni)
Schwarze.
USA.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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