Jermaine O Archer

Antebellum Slave Narratives

Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780415990271
• ISBN-10: 0415990270
• Artikelnr.: 25843898

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. "Speaking Guinea and a Mixture of Everything Else": The Slave Narratives
of Frederick Douglass Re-visited 2. William Wells Brown: Subtle Whispers of
Slave Culture, Pan-Africanism & Insurgency 3. "Moses Is Got De Charm":
Harriet Tubman's Mosaic Persona 4. Harriet Jacobs: A Larger Discussion of
the John Kuner Parade and Other Cultural Recollections 5. Discourse on the
Slave Narrative and a New Interpretation on Black Anti-Slavery Ideology