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A. Timothy SpauldingPublication Details
BookOhio State University Press2005Availability
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In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, postmodern slave narratives such as Ishmael Reed?s Flight to Canada, Octavia Butler?s Kindred, Toni Morrison?s Beloved, Charles Johnson?s Ox Herding Tale and Middle Passage, Jewelle Gomez?s The Gilda Stories, and Samuel Delany?s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand set out to counter the usual slave narrative?s reliance on realism and objectivity by creating alternative histories based on subjective, fantastic, and non-realistic representations of slavery. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Johnson, Charles Richard, — 1948- — Knowledge — History
- Reed, Ishmael, — 1938- — Flight to Canada
- Butler, Octavia E. — Kindred
- Morrison, Toni. — Beloved
- American fiction — 20th century — History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- American fiction — African American authors — History and criticism
- Historical fiction, American — History and criticism
- Fantasy fiction, American — History and criticism
- Postmodernism (Literature) — United States
- African Americans in literature
- Slavery in literature
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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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- 0814210066
- 0814290841
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