Slavery and the Literary Imagination (Selected Papers from the English Institute)

Book Overview

Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews-- to Sheley Anne William's "Dessa Rose" (1984). Among the contributors, Arnold Rampersad reads W.E.B. DuBois's classic work "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903) as a response to Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery" (1901). Hazel V. Carby examines novels of slavery and novels of sharecropping and questions the critical tendency to conflate the two, thereby also conflating the nineteenth century with the twentieth, the rural with the urban.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801837561
• ISBN13: 9780801837562
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.6" x 7.9"