Re-forming the past
Subtitle: history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative
By: A. Timothy Spaulding.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Subjects: Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948- -- Knowledge -- History.; Reed, Ishmael, 1938-; Butler, Octavia E.; Morrison, Toni.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Slavery in literature.; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; African Americans in literature.; Slaves in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred; title: Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved & the gothic impulse; title: Re-forming subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage; title: Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.