Slavery and the Literary Imagination - Selected Papers from the English Institute - Arnold Rampersad - Books - Johns Hopkins University Press - 9780801839481 - September 26, 1989
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Slavery and the Literary Imagination - Selected Papers from the English Institute

Arnold Rampersad

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Slavery and the Literary Imagination - Selected Papers from the English Institute

Jacket Description/Back: 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. Although works by Afro-American writers are the primary focus, the authors also examine antislavery novels by white women. Hortense J. Spillers gives extensive attention to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", in juxtaposition with Ishmael Reed's "Flight to Canada"; Carolyn L. Karcher reads Lydia Maria Child's "A Romance of the Republic" as an abolitionist vision of America's racial destiny. In a concluding chapter, Deborah E. McDowell's reading of "Desa Rose" reveals how slavery and freedom-- dominant themes in nineteenth-century black literature-- continue to command the attention of contemporary authors. Review Quotes: "This volume of essays represents the widest spectrum of criticism to date on the intersection of American slavery and literary artistry." -- Joyce H. Scott, American LiteratureReview Quotes:"This volume of essays represents the widest spectrum of criticism to date on the intersection of American slavery and literary artistry." -- Joyce H. Scott, American LiteratureReview Quotes: This volume of essays represents the widest spectrum of criticism to date on the intersection of American slavery and literary artistry.--Joyce H. Scott "American Literature "Publisher Marketing: Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845) to Shelley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose (1984).

Contributor Bio:  Rampersad, Arnold Arnold Rampersad (Ph. D. Harvard) is the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is co-editor (with Deborah E. McDowell) of Slavery and the Literary Imagination, and editor of the definitive Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. He is the author of the two-volume biography The Life of Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson: A Biography, and co-author (with Arthur Ashe) of Days of Grace: A Memoir. He is also editor of The Harlem Renaissance. Contributor Bio:  McDowell, Deborah E Deborah E. McDowell (Ph. D. Purdue), Co-Editor, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism. Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Founding editor of the Beacon Black Women Writers series; co-editor with Arnold Rampersad of Slavery of the Literary Imagination; author of "The Changing Same: Studies in Fiction by Black Women; Leaving the Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; editor of Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun, Pauline Hopkins s Of One Blood, and numerous articles and essays.


192 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 26, 1989
ISBN13 9780801839481
Publishers Johns Hopkins University Press
Genre Ethnic Orientation > African American - Sex & Gender > Feminine
Pages 192
Dimensions 137 × 203 × 13 mm   ·   227 g
Editor McDowell, Deborah E.
Editor Rampersad, Arnold

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