The Slave's narrative /
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| Imprint: | Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985. |
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| Description: | xxxiv, 342 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/643724 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Language of Slavery
- 1.. Written by Themselves: Views and Reviews, 1750-1861
- The Life of Job Ben Solomon
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African; Written by Himself
- The Life and Adventures of a Fugitive Slave
- Narrative of James Williams
- The Narrative of Juan Manzano
- Narratives of Fugitive Slaves
- Life of Henry Bibb
- The Life and Bondage of Frederick Douglass
- Kidnapped and Ransomed
- Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
- 2.. The Slave Narratives as History
- On Dialect Usage
- The Art and Science of Reading WPA Slave Narratives
- History from Slave Sources
- Charles Chesnutt and the WPA Narratives: The Oral and Literate Roots of Afro-American Literature
- Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems
- Plantation Factories and the Slave Work Ethic
- The Making of a Fugitive Slave Narrative: Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom--A Case Study
- 3.. The Slave Narratives as Literature
- "I Was Born": Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature
- Three West African Writers of the 1780s
- Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery
- I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives
- Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave
- Text and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
- The Slave Narrators and the Picaresque Mode: Archetypes for Modern Black Personae
- Singing Swords: The Literary Legacy of Slavery
- Bibliography
- Index