Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-276) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Master texts and slave narratives: race, form, and intertextuality in the field of cultural production -- Toward 1968: the discourse in formation -- The discourse mobilized: the debate over William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner -- The possession of resistance: Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada -- Meditations on story: Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Serving the form, conserving the order: Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale -- Revising the form, misserving the order: Charles Johnson's Middle passage -- Conclusion.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book studies the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent cultural debates that arose during the sixties."--Jacket.