| Series |
Literary criticism and cultural theory
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| Contents |
Introduction: into the dismal swamp -- Identity and the dynamics of space -- Sambo, Nat, and the gentleman planter: notions of self on the plantation -- The slave in the swamp: claiming space -- John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow barn and the birth of plantation literature -- Literary swamps of the 1850s -- Proslavery writers in the wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- African American views of the swamp: slave narratives and early fiction -- Stowe's Dred and the discourse of violence in the 1850s -- Reconciliation and the lost cause -- Dredging the swamps: Joel Chandler Harris and the packaging of African American folklore -- The cult of the lost cause and Thomas Nelson Page's "No Haid Pawn" -- George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes and plantation narrative(s) -- Conclusion: the body of the maroon. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-276) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004024935 |
| ISBN | 0415972167 (alk. paper) |
