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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tim A Ryan |
ISBN: | 9780807133224 0807133221 |
OCLC Number: | 175289954 |
Description: | ix, 260 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Designs against Tara: representing slavery in American culture, 1936-1944 -- From Tara to Turner: slavery and slave psychologies in American fiction and history, 1945-1968 -- You shall see how a slave was made a woman: the development of the contemporary novel of slavery, 1976-1987 -- Scarlett and Mammy done gone: complications of the contemporary novel of slavery, 1986-2003 -- Mapping the unrepresentable: slavery fiction in the new millennium. |
Series Title: | Southern literary studies. |
Responsibility: | Tim A. Ryan. |
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Abstract:
In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Ryan suggests that discourses about American slavery are - and have always been - defined by connections rather than disjunctions.
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by stamref updated 2012-06-02