Jermaine O. Archer

Gebundenes Buch

Antebellum Slave Narratives

Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa

Beschreibung

This book examines the slave narratives of key members of the abolitionist movement - Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs - revealing how these highly visible proponents of the antislavery cause were able to engage and at times overcome the cultural biases of their listening and reading audiences.

Autor

Jermaine Archer is an Assistant Professor of History in the American Studies Department at SUNY, College at Old Westbury. His essay "Bitter Herbs and a Lock of Hair: Recollections of Africa in Slave Narratives of the Garrisonian Era" recently appeared in Michael Gomez ed., Diasporic Africa. He has also contributed essays on the significance of dreams in the African-American folk tradition and on the scholarship and activism of George P. Rawick in the Encyclopedia of African-American Folklore.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9780415990271
• ISBN-10: 0415990270
• Artikelnr.: 25843898