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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sterling Lecater Bland |
| ISBN: | 0313311692 9780313311697 0275967077 9780275967079 |
| OCLC Number: | 42765222 |
| Description: | xviii, 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Let the world dream otherwise : the literary masks of fugitive slave stories -- Dismantling the master's house : the cultural context -- Religion, revolt, and the commodification of language : the limitations of "voice" in The confessions of Nat Turner -- "Behold a man transformed" : sacred language and the secular self in Frederick Douglass's Narrative -- Authority, power, and determination of the will : the dilemma of rhetorical ownership in Frederick Douglass's My bondage and my freedom and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- Ambiguity, passing, and the politics of color : the reconstruction of race in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom -- Of being and nothingness : Caliban's reprise. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 199 |
| Responsibility: | Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr. |
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- American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
- Slaves' writings, American -- History and criticism.
- Slaves -- United States -- Intellectual life.
- Racially mixed people in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Passing (Identity) in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Fugitive slaves in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Self in literature.
- Autobiography.

