Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the WindLSU Press, 2008 - 272 páginas In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed to the traditional, racist fiction (and history) created by whites, Ryan suggests that discourses about American slavery are -- and have always been -- defined by connections rather than disjunctions. Ryan contends that African American writers didn't merely reject and move beyond traditional portrayals of the black past but rather actively engaged in a dynamic dialogue with white-authored versions of slavery and existing historiographical debates. The result is an ongoing cultural conversation that transcends both racial and disciplinary boundaries and is akin to the call-and-response style of African American gospel music. |
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... Black Thunder (both 1936)—to the most recent noteworthy novels on the topic—Edward P. Jones's The Known World and ... African American gospel music—a style, of course, that originated in Africa and developed in the United States during ...
... Black Thunder, by the African American leftist Arna Bontemps, and The Red Cock Crows by the white Mississippian Frances Gaither. Both texts seem to have the potential to serve as powerful counternarratives to Gone with the Wind, but ...
... Black Thunder and The Red Cock Crows vividly demonstrate that both black and white writers in the 1930s and 1940s challenged romanticized representations of slavery and racist constructions of slave psychologies long before the ...
... Black Thunder and The Red Cock Crows address gender roles and relations within slavery in ways that sufficiently challenge the orthodoxies of Mitchell's portrayal of antebellum southern society. There was an influential shift in slavery ...
... Black Thunder)— played a significant role in the uprising (182–85). Gabriel's insurrection is far from the only American slave rebellion that seems to have possessed a class dimension as well as a racial one. Recent studies of Denmark ...
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The Development of the Contemporary Novel of Slavery 19761987 | 114 |
Complications of the Contemporary Novel of Slavery 19862003 | 149 |
Slavery Fiction in the New Millennium | 185 |
Beyond Black and White | 209 |
Major Historical Studies Fiction Drama Films and TV Presentations since 1918 concerning Slavery in the United States | 215 |
NOTES | 227 |
WORKS CITED | 237 |
INDEX | 249 |
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Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind Tim A. Ryan Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind Tim A. Ryan Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |