How slave narratives influenced American literature
Subtitle: a source for Herman Melville's Billy Budd
By: Rolando Leodore Jorif ; with a foreword by Jon-Christian Suggs.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780773448261
Subjects: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Sources; American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Slaves' writings, American -- History and criticism; Slaves -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism; Slaves -- United States -- Intellectual life; Autobiography -- African American authors; Slavery in literature; Impressment in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery's law of compensation; title: Frederick Douglass's providential rediscovery of Africa: agape; title: The slave narrative's use of agape and Herman Melville's Billy Budd.