Title: Slavery and the literary imagination /
Authors: McDowell, Deborah E., 1951-; Rampersad, Arnold
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Du Bois, W. E. B. Criticism and interpretation.; American literature History and criticism; Slavery in literature; African Americans in literature; American literature Afro-American authors History and criticism.; American literature History and criticism; American literature African American authors History and criticism
Contents: The founding fathers, Frederick Douglass / James Olney -- Changing the letter / Hortense J. Spillers -- The representation of slavery and the rise of Afro-American literary realism, 1865-1920 / William L. Andrews -- Lydia Maria Child's "A romance of the republic" / Carolyn L. Karcher -- Slavery and the literary imagination / Arnold Rampersad -- Ideologies of black folk / Hazel V. Carby -- Negotiating between tenses / Deborah E. McDowell.