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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หน้า xviii
... question of the influence of the slave narratives on the form of subsequent Afro - American literary works . That the matter is still alive is perhaps best illustrated by the divergent opinions on this question ex- pressed by Ralph ...
... question of the influence of the slave narratives on the form of subsequent Afro - American literary works . That the matter is still alive is perhaps best illustrated by the divergent opinions on this question ex- pressed by Ralph ...
หน้า xix
... questions as it resolves , precisely because historical expe- rience and textual experience reinforce each other in a dialectical rela- tionship so complex that the identification of origins is , at best , rendered problematic . This is ...
... questions as it resolves , precisely because historical expe- rience and textual experience reinforce each other in a dialectical rela- tionship so complex that the identification of origins is , at best , rendered problematic . This is ...
หน้า xxii
... Questions of intention and context , of course , should not alone be used to define a period or genre in literary history . The matter of defining this genre is complicated by the many novels , printed before 1865 , which imitate the ...
... Questions of intention and context , of course , should not alone be used to define a period or genre in literary history . The matter of defining this genre is complicated by the many novels , printed before 1865 , which imitate the ...
หน้า xxxi
... question , " What was it like to be a slave ? " could answer only that : ... We do not know . The slaves themselves never told . There were always negroes who had secured their freedom . But they had no literary gift . If they were ...
... question , " What was it like to be a slave ? " could answer only that : ... We do not know . The slaves themselves never told . There were always negroes who had secured their freedom . But they had no literary gift . If they were ...
หน้า 6
... question whether more truth can be com- municated in real or fictitious narrative . The latter , certainly , has the ... questions which the public will not fail to ask . Of the plan of the work we cannot give the 6 The Life and ...
... question whether more truth can be com- municated in real or fictitious narrative . The latter , certainly , has the ... questions which the public will not fail to ask . Of the plan of the work we cannot give the 6 The Life and ...
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3 | |
2 The Slave Narratives as History | 35 |
Illustrations | 146 |
3 The Slave Narratives as Literature | 147 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Index | 331 |
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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.