The slave in the swamp : disrupting the plantation narrative /
Cowan, William Tynes,1963-
New York ; London : Routledge,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-276) and index.
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.
American fiction
Slavery in literature.
American fiction
Fugitive slaves in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Slaves in literature.