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Author Bland, Sterling Lecater, Jr., 1961-

Title Voices of the fugitives : runaway slave stories and their fictions of self-creation / Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr.

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  818.308 B642V    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 199
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 199.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-182) and index.
Contents Let the world dream otherwise : the literary masks of fugitive slave stories -- Dismantling the master's house : the cultural context -- Religion, revolt, and the commodification of language : the limitations of "voice" in The confessions of Nat Turner -- "Behold a man transformed" : sacred language and the secular self in Frederick Douglass's Narrative -- Authority, power, and determination of the will : the dilemma of rhetorical ownership in Frederick Douglass's My bondage and my freedom and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- Ambiguity, passing, and the politics of color : the reconstruction of race in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom -- Of being and nothingness : Caliban's reprise.
Subject American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Enslaved persons' writings, American -- History and criticism.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Fugitive slaves in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Self in literature.
Autobiography.
ISBN 0313311692 (acid-free paper)
0275967077 paperback
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