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Voices of the fugitives : runaway slave stories and their fictions of self-creation

Author: Sterling Lecater Bland
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 199
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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