The Cambridge companion to slavery in American literature /
edited by Ezra Tawil, University of Rochester.
- xx, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Cambridge companions to literature .
- Cambridge companions to literature. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Slavery in the eighteenth-century literary imagination / U.S. antislavery tracts and the literary imagination / White slaves in the late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literary imagination / Slave narratives as literature / Slavery and the emergence of the African American novel / Proslavery fiction / The poetry of slavery / Reading slavery and 'classic' American literature / Slavery's performance-texts / The music and the musical inheritance of slavery / U.S. slave revolutions in Atlantic world literature / Slavery and American literature 1900-1945 / Moving pictures: spectacles of enslavement in American cinema / Slavery and historical memory in late-twentieth-century fiction / Beyond the borders of the neo-slave narrative: science fiction and fantasy / Ezra Tawil -- Philip Gould -- Teresa A. Goddu -- Joe Shapiro -- Sarah Meer -- John C. Havard -- Gavin Jones and Judith Richardson -- Meredith L. McGill -- Robert S. Levine -- Douglas A. Jones, Jr. -- Radiclani Clytus -- Paul Giles -- Tim Armstrong -- Sharon Willis -- Ashraf H.A. Rushdy -- Jeffrey Allen Tucker. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
"Slavery is of course an indisputably central topic in American history. Yet to date, students, teachers and scholars have had no collection of essays aimed at an overview of its place in American literature. The seeds of this book were sown a few years ago when I set out to design a survey course on race and slavery in American writing. To broaden my preparation beyond the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century focus of my previous research on the subject, I returned to a long-admired group of essays: Deborah McDowell and Arnold Rampersad's Slavery and the Literary Imagination (1989), a brilliant and enduring collection, but a set of English Institute papers that made no attempt at comprehensive treatment--from the introduction by Ezra Tawil"--
Slavery in literature. American literature--History and criticism. American literature--African American authors--History and criticism. Slavery in motion pictures--History and criticism. Enslaved persons' writings, American--History and criticism.