Classic Slave Narratives African American Literature
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The Classic Slave Narratives
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Author : Henry Louis Gates
language : en
Publisher: Signet
Release Date : 1987
The Classic Slave Narratives written by Henry Louis Gates and has been published by Signet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with African Americans categories.
These autobiographical narratives are the first texts in which black slaves began to proclaim themselves as human beings. The literature forms an intriguing personal tapestry, encompassing varied stories but inevitably depicting the horrors of human bondadge.
Classic Slave Narratives African American Literature
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Author : W. E. B. W.E.B. DuBois
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-21
Classic Slave Narratives African American Literature written by W. E. B. W.E.B. DuBois and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with categories.
Masterful | Genius Work | 2 Books in One! From Booker T. Washington - "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." From W.E.B. DuBois - "Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, -- all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, -- who is good? not that men are ignorant, -- what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men." Up From Slavery was written by Booker T. Washington and Published in 1901. The Souls of Black Folk was written by W.E.B. DuBois and Published in 1903. Buy Your Copy Today!
The Cambridge Companion To The African American Slave Narrative
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Author : Audrey Fisch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-31
The Cambridge Companion To The African American Slave Narrative written by Audrey Fisch and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.
Slave Narratives Loa 114
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Author : William L. Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2000-01-15
Slave Narratives Loa 114 written by William L. Andrews and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-15 with History categories.
This collection of landmark slave narratives demonstrates how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition No literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the cruelty and degradation of slavery while testifying to the African-American struggle for freedom and dignity. They demonstrate the power of the written word to affirm a person’s—and a people’s—humanity in a society poisoned by racism. Slave Narratives shows how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and, through their expression of anger, pain, sorrow, and courage, laid the foundations of the African-American literary tradition. This volume collects ten works published between 1772 and 1864: • Narratives by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1772) and Olaudah Equiano (1789) recount how they were taken from Africa as children and brought across the Atlantic to British North America. • The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) provides unique insight into the man who led the deadliest slave uprising in American history. • The widely read narratives by the fugitive slaves Frederick Douglass (1845), William Wells Brown (1847), and Henry Bibb (1849) strengthened the abolitionist cause by exposing the hypocrisies inherent in a slaveholding society ostensibly dedicated to liberty and Christian morality. • The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) describes slavery in the North while expressing the eloquent fervor of a dedicated woman. • Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860) tells the story of William and Ellen Craft’s subversive and ingenious escape from Georgia to Philadelphia. • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is Harriet Jacobs’s complex and moving story of her prolonged resistance to sexual and racial oppression. • The narrative of the “trickster” Jacob Green (1864) presents a disturbing story full of wild humor and intense cruelty. Together, these works fuse memory, advocacy, and defiance into a searing collective portrait of American life before emancipation. Slave Narratives contains a chronology of events in the history of slavery, as well as biographical and explanatory notes and an essay on the texts.
Classic African American Women S Narratives
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Author : William L. Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2003-01
Classic African American Women S Narratives written by William L. Andrews and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01 with Literary Collections categories.
A collection of narratives written by African-American women before 1865 who relate their personal stories of captivity, freedom, and the horrors of slavery.
Slavery And The Literary Imagination
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Author : Deborah E. McDowell
language : en
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 1989
Slavery And The Literary Imagination written by Deborah E. McDowell and has been published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews-- to Sheley Anne William's "Dessa Rose" (1984). Among the contributors, Arnold Rampersad reads W.E.B. DuBois's classic work "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903) as a response to Booker T. Washington's "Up from Slavery" (1901). Hazel V. Carby examines novels of slavery and novels of sharecropping and questions the critical tendency to conflate the two, thereby also conflating the nineteenth century with the twentieth, the rural with the urban.
Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass
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Author : FREDERICK DOUGLASS
language : en
Publisher: PURE SNOW PUBLISHING
Release Date : 2022-08-25
Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass written by FREDERICK DOUGLASS and has been published by PURE SNOW PUBLISHING this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
- This book contains custom design elements for each chapter. This classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when its author had just achieved his freedom. Its shocking first-hand account of the horrors of slavery became an international best seller. His eloquence led Frederick Douglass to become the first great African-American leader in the United States. • Douglass rose through determination, brilliance and eloquence to shape the American Nation. • He was an abolitionist, human rights and women’s rights activist, orator, author, journalist, publisher and social reformer • His personal relationship with Abraham Lincoln helped persuade the President to make emancipation a cause of the Civil War.
Twin Classics In African American Literature Harriet Jacobs S Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl And Frederick Douglass S Narrative Of The Life
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Author : Markus Bulgrin
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-11
Twin Classics In African American Literature Harriet Jacobs S Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl And Frederick Douglass S Narrative Of The Life written by Markus Bulgrin and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: PSII: Captivity Narratives, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Besides the virtual extermination of the native Indian population it is the brutal and dreadful treatment of Afro-American slaves in the 19th century which depicts some of the darkest and saddest chapters in the history of the United States. Still today the vestiges of slavery can be felt. Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) are two autobiographies, written by two former slaves, who succeeded in escaping slavery and all its inexpressible cruelties. They are considered two of the most influential, and groundbreaking works of the Antebellum Period, which bear witness to slavery in the United States. These two narratives "that have become twin classics in African American literature course" (cf. Boesenberg 1999: 121), shall be compared, discussed and analysed in this paper. However, Boesenberg's classification of the texts as "twin classics" could be misread and give rise to misinterpretation, as it may not be the most fitting term. Twins are widely thought of being almost the same. One might argue that this is not entirely true for Jacobs's and Douglass's narratives. The aim of this paper will be to point out some crucial similarities and differences between Douglass's and Jacobs's autobiographies. The first part of the paper briefly introduces some important similarities of the two narratives. In a second part focus will be given to distinctive features of these texts: family ties, gender difference, sexual exploitation, and manhood and womanhood. In a third part the motif of literacy and its meaning for the author's liberation will be discussed. The conclusion summar
I Was Born A Slave
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Author : Yuval Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 1999-03-01
I Was Born A Slave written by Yuval Taylor and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-01 with Social Science categories.
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant &“slave narratives.&” They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write; and the triumphs and difficulties of life as free men and women. Many of the narratives—such as those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs—have achieved reputations as masterpieces; but some of the lesser-known narratives are equally brilliant. This unprecedented anthology presents them unabridged, providing each one with helpful introductions and annotations, to form the most comprehensive volume ever assembled on the lives and writings of the slaves. Volume One (1770-1849) includes the narratives of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), William Grimes, Nat Turner, Charles Ball, Moses Roper, Frederick Douglass, Lewis & Milton Clarke, William Wells Brown, and Josiah Henson.
Six Women S Slave Narratives
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Author : William L. Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1988
Six Women S Slave Narratives written by William L. Andrews and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with American literature categories.
Six narrations by slave women about their lives during and after their years in bondage, honoring the nobility and strength of African-American women of that era.