The Slave's NarrativeCharles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Oxford University Press, 21 ก.พ. 1991 - 385 หน้า These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts. |
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ผลการค้นหา 1 - 5 จาก 71
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... LITERARY HISTORY which will be published by The Modern Language Association . I ROSE AND FOUND MY VOICE by Robert Stepto is reprinted from FROM BEHIND THE VEIL by Robert Stepto , courtesy of the University of Illinois Press . HISTORY ...
... LITERARY HISTORY which will be published by The Modern Language Association . I ROSE AND FOUND MY VOICE by Robert Stepto is reprinted from FROM BEHIND THE VEIL by Robert Stepto , courtesy of the University of Illinois Press . HISTORY ...
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... literary criticism of this body of compelling texts , would be readily accessible in one volume . Where in the history of human slavery does there exist another litera- ture of this ironic sort , consisting of the imaginative ...
... literary criticism of this body of compelling texts , would be readily accessible in one volume . Where in the history of human slavery does there exist another litera- ture of this ironic sort , consisting of the imaginative ...
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... literary " bias yield ? It confirms convincingly the herme- neutical principle that the tools with which we read largely determine what it is possible to discover in a text ; and , second , that despite the attention and energy of these ...
... literary " bias yield ? It confirms convincingly the herme- neutical principle that the tools with which we read largely determine what it is possible to discover in a text ; and , second , that despite the attention and energy of these ...
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... literary theory ; Kai Erikson for asking me to write about Frederick Douglass for the Yale Review ; the Pro- gram in Afro - American Studies for its unflagging support ; my colleagues Houston A. Baker , Jr. , Kimberly W. Benston , Hazel ...
... literary theory ; Kai Erikson for asking me to write about Frederick Douglass for the Yale Review ; the Pro- gram in Afro - American Studies for its unflagging support ; my colleagues Houston A. Baker , Jr. , Kimberly W. Benston , Hazel ...
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... , 283 CHARLES H. NICHOLS Singing Swords : The Literary Legacy of Slavery , 298 MELVIN DIXON Bibliography , 319 Index , 331 Illustrations follow page 146 Introduction The Language of Slavery There may be humane masters x Contents.
... , 283 CHARLES H. NICHOLS Singing Swords : The Literary Legacy of Slavery , 298 MELVIN DIXON Bibliography , 319 Index , 331 Illustrations follow page 146 Introduction The Language of Slavery There may be humane masters x Contents.
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2 The Slave Narratives as History | 35 |
Illustrations | 146 |
3 The Slave Narratives as Literature | 147 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Index | 331 |
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abolitionist African Afro-American American Slave antebellum Anti-Slavery audience authenticating autobiography Bibb's Blassingame bondage Boston Canada Carolina character Charles Chesnutt Christian collection conventional Cugoano culture edition editor enslaved Equiano escape essay ex-slaves experience fact fiction former slaves Frederick Douglass freedom fugitive slave genre Harriet Beecher Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Jacobs Henry Bibb Henry Box Henry Box Brown historians human Ibid Incidents Jacobs James James W.C. Pennington John Josiah Henson Julius labor language letters literary literature lived Lobb London Manzano master ment mode narrator nature Negro novel oral plantation preface present published question race Rawick reader relations reveal scholars sense sentence Skundus slave community slave narratives slavery Solomon Northup South speech story Stowe's strategy style tale tell testimony tion tive tradition truth Uncle Tom Uncle Tom's Cabin voice William Wells Brown words writing written wrote York
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หน้า 166 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well...
หน้า xxiv - Again, let a man only consider what a difference there is between the life of men in the most civilized province of Europe, and in the wildest and most barbarous districts of New India; he will feel it be great enough to justify the saying that "man is a god to man," not only in regard of aid and benefit, but also by a comparison of condition.
หน้า 186 - Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries ? either a vine, figs ? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
หน้า xiii - I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
หน้า 76 - Whereas if we approach a poet without this prejudice we shall often find that not only the best, but the most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously.
หน้า 297 - winner take nothing" that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.