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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Biography Sources |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles T Davis; Henry Louis Gates |
| ISBN: | 0195066561 9780195066562 0195032764 9780195032765 9780195032772 0195032772 |
| OCLC Number: | 23353177 |
| Notes: | "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1990." |
| Description: | xxxiv, 342, [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Life of Job Ben Solomon -- Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vass, the African; written by himself -- Life and adventures of a fugitive slave -- Narrative of James Williams -- Narrative of Juan Manzano -- Narratives of fugitive slaves -- Life of Henry Bibb -- Life and bondage of Frederick Douglass -- Kidnapped and ransomed -- Linda : incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself. On dialect usage / Sterling A. Brown -- Art and science of reading WPA slave narratives / Paul D. Escott -- History from slave sources / C. Vann Woodward -- Charles Chesnutt and the WPA narratives : the oral and literate roots of Afro-American Literature / John Edgar Wideman -- Using the testimony of ex-slaves : approaches and problems / John W. Blassingame -- Plantation factories and the slave work ethic / Gerald Jaynes -- Making of a fugitive slave narrative : Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom -- a case study / Robin W. Winks. "I was born" : slave narratives, their status as autobiography and as literature / James Olney -- Three West African writers of the 1780s / Paul Edwards -- Crushed geraniums : Juan Francisco Manzano and the language of slavery / Susan Willis -- I rose and found my voice : narration, authentication, and authorial control in four slave narratives / Robert Burns Stepto -- Autobiographical acts and the voice of the Southern slave / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Text and contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself -- Jean Fagan Yellin -- Slave narrators and the picaresque mode : archetypes for modern black personae / Charles H. Nichols -- Singing swords : the literary legacy of slavery / Melvin Dixon. |
| Responsibility: | [edited by] Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
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