Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas Paperback / softback
Edited by Nicole N. Aljoe, Ian Finseth
Part of the New World Studies series
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Focusing on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection of essays suggests the importance - even the necessity - of looking beyond the iconic and ubiquitous works of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs.
In granting sustained critical attention to writers such as Briton Hammon, Omar Ibn Said, Juan Francisco Manzano, Nat Turner, and Venture Smith, among others, this book makes a crucial contribution not only to scholarship on the slave narrative but also to our understanding of early African American and Black Atlantic literature. The essays explore the social and cultural contexts, the aesthetic and rhetorical techniques, and the political and ideological features of these noncanonical texts.
By concentrating on earlier slave narratives not only from the United States but from the Caribbean, South America, and Latin America as well, the volume highlights the inherent transnationality of the genre, illuminating its complex cultural origins and global circulation.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:University of Virginia Press
- Publication Date:14/11/2014
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- ISBN:9780813936383
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:University of Virginia Press
- Publication Date:14/11/2014
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- ISBN:9780813936383