Slavery and the literary imagination
By: edited by Deborah E. McDowell and Arnold Rampersad.
Contributors: McDowell, Deborah E., 1951-; Rampersad, Arnold.
Edition: Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
Series: Selected papers from the English Institute, 1987 -- new ser., no. 13; Selected papers from the English Institute -- new ser., no. 13.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Slavery and slaves in literature; African Americans in literature; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The founding fathers, Frederick Douglass / James Olney; title: Changing the letter / Hortense J. Spillers; title: The representation of slavery and the rise of Afro-American literary realism, 1865-1920 / William L. Andrews; title: Lydia Maria Child's "A romance of the republic" / Carolyn L. Karcher; title: Slavery and the literary imagination / Arnold Rampersad; title: Ideologies of black folk / Hazel V. Carby; title: Negotiating between tenses / Deborah E. McDowell.