Voices of the fugitives : runaway slave stories and their fictions of self-creation

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

Author/creator	Bland, Sterling Lecater, Jr., 1961-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, ©2000.
Description	xviii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	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. African Americans--Intellectual life --19th century. Enslaved persons' writings, American--History and criticism. Enslaved persons--United States --Intellectual life. Racially mixed people in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Passing (Identity) in literature. African Americans in literature. Fugitive slaves in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Self in literature. Autobiography.

Series	Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 199, 0069-9624 ; Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 199. ^A477074
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.
Local note	Little-324987--305131044513U
Local note	Little-324987--305131044513U
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index.
LCCN	99055223
ISBN	0313311692 (acid-free paper)
ISBN	0275967077 (pbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS366.A35 B6 2000	✔ Available	Place Hold