NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, NeoSlave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent the crucial cultural debates that arose during the sixties.
Author(s): Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 296
Contents......Page 10
One: Master Texts and Slave Narratives: Race, Form, and Intertextuality in the Field of Cultural Production......Page 14
Two: Toward 1968: The Discourse in Formation......Page 34
Three: The Discourse Mobilized: The Debate over William Styrons The Confessions of Nat Turner......Page 65
Four: The Possession of Resistance: Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada......Page 107
Five: Meditations on Story: Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose......Page 143
Six: Serving the Form, Conserving the Order: Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale......Page 178
Seven: Revising the Form, Misserving the Order: Charles Johnson's Middle Passage......Page 212
Eight: Conclusion......Page 238
Notes......Page 244
B......Page 288
C......Page 289
D......Page 290
H......Page 291
J......Page 292
M......Page 293
O......Page 294
S......Page 295
T......Page 296
Z......Page 297
