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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 July 2007
      31 May 2007
      ISBN:
      9781139001458
      9780521850193
      9780521615266
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521850193
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.592kg, 290 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.474kg, 290 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.

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    '…the essays are concise, clearly written and full of fresh insights.'

    Source: CLIO

    '… accessible, illustrative and stimulating companion to narrative.'

    Source: Journal of Language and Literature

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