Neo-slave narratives
Subtitle: studies in the social logic of a literary form
By: Ashraf H.A. Rushdy.
Series: Race and American culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; Slavery in literature.; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Slaves' writings, American -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); African Americans in literature.; First-person narrative.; Slavery in literature.; Literary form -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "This book studies the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative.

After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent cultural debates that arose during the sixties."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-276) and index.