FROM BEHIND THE VEIL
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 1, 1970
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780252007521
Subjects: Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Afro-American authors; Afro-Americans; American prose literature; Autobiography; Biography; History and criticism
First sentence: The strident, moral voice of the former slave recounting, exposing, appealing, apostrophizing, and above all remembering his ordeal in bondage is the single most impressive feature of a slave narrative.