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Books on: slave narratives

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Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft

Book by Charles J. Heglar; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Craft, Ellen, Marriage In Literature, Slavery In Literature, Slaves' Writings, American--History And Criticism, Slaves--United States--Biography--History And Criticism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...classic subgenre of the slave narrative and fictional treatments...influence of classic narratives that focus on slave...attempting to use Douglass Narrative as the key link between...examples of the neo-slave narrative, a number of other...writing neo-slave narratives. 1 Among them are...
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I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives, 1770-1849 - Vol. 1

Book by Yuval Taylor; Lawrence Hill Books, 1999

Subjects:

African Americans--Biography, Slaves' Writings, American, Slaves--United States--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...access some of the scarcer narratives; the University of Chicago...1. Starling, in Slave Narrative , provides "a bibliographic...to the location of 6006 narrative records" xviii, 337...approximately sixty-five American slave narratives were published in book or...at least fifty more ex-slaves saw their autobiographies...
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Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form

Book by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Fiction, Influence (Literary, Artistic, Etc.), Literary Form, Literature And Society--United States--History--20th Century, Slavery In Literature, Slaves' Writings, American--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...individuality. By offering us a narrative structured as a form of spirit...intersubjective relations between the slave subjects of the narrative, Reed is also making a point...originals," arguing that slave narratives need not be read as statements...
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The Slave's Narrative

Book by Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Oxford University Press, 1985

Subjects:

Autobiography, Slavery--United States--History--Sources, Slaves--United States--Biography, Slaves--United States--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...motivated writing, the slave narrative continues to command the...abolished. Whereas these narratives initially were the province...concerned with the slave narrative, including essays on the Federal Writers Projects oral narratives, now edited by George P...Bayliss, ed., Black Slave Narratives 1970 ; Norman...Stories of the Runaway Slaves 1971 ; John W. Blassingame...
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African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology - Vol. 1

Book by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr.; Greenwood Press, 2001

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African Americans--Biography, Slaves' Writings, American, Slaves--United States--Biography, Slaves--United States--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...African American slave narrative writing. Slave narrative writers were deeply...create. Virtually all slave narratives seek, at some level...APPROPRIATION OF THE EX-SLAVES VOICE The expansion...Observer . Ex-slaves were increasingly...orations and as written narratives. The oral, performative component of the narrative is especially significant...oral presentation, slave nar-

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Journal Articles on: slave narratives

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Footprints of the Fugitive: Slave Narrative Discourse and the Trace of Autobiography

Journal article by Lynn A. Casmier-Paz; Biography, Vol. 24, 2001

Subjects:

Autobiographies--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fugitive slaves--Personal narratives, Slaves--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...nor in the narratives title. The "Narrative of the Life...length American slave narrative...problem of the slaves multiple names...readers bring to slave narrative discourse their...that fugitive "slaves are notorious...Douglasss and Bibbs narratives respond with...their text, The Slaves Narrative, where they define slave narratives as "the written...
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'To Disembark': The Slave Narrative Tradition

Journal article by Kimberly Rae Connor; African American Review, Vol. 30, 1996

Subjects:

African American artists--Exhibitions, Installations (Art)--Exhibitions, Ligon, Glenn--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics in art--Analysis, Slavery--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Slaves--Personal narratives

Collections: Entire Library

...period images - as the slave being advertised...of escaped fugative slaves. Following this is...literary genre of the slave narrative as its primary...introduce the published narrative of an ex-slave...nineteenth-century slave narratives - Ligon demonstrates...and thrilling in narrative. From the soil of...self-emancipated slaves do now exhibit slavery...reception of ex-slave narratives were underscored by...
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Four Slave Narratives from the Old North State

Journal article by George Hovis; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 58, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...antebellum and postbellum slave narratives in general. Whereas the 1855 narrative emphasizes the stevedore...account of his life as a famous slave minister emphasizes the shared faith of slaves and their poor white neighbors...and most other postbellum narratives, Joness 1885 remembrance...
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Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and Ellen Craft

Journal article by Frances Smith Foster; African American Review, Vol. 36, 2002

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Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and Ellen Craft (Book)

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...Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry...Douglasss 1845 Narrative and Jacobss...prototypes of slave narratives. Stowe is...Rethinking the Slave Narrative sets out...antebellum slave narratives and to redirect...
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Inverting History in Octavia Butler's Postmodern Slave Narrative

Journal article by Marc Steinberg; African American Review, Vol. 38, 2004

Subjects:

African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Butler, Octavia E.--Criticism and interpretation, Kindred (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Slave narratives--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself...to other women and/or slaves in her community. Robert...under which they live, the slaves constitute a rich human society...xviii-xix). The cohesive slave community is represented in many slave narratives. But Butler depicts no sense...community" (32). While the narrative does often concentrate on...

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Magazine Articles on: slave narratives

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Book Casts Doubts on Parts of 18th-century Slave Narrative

Magazine article; Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 22, October 6, 2005

Subjects:

Blacks, Books, Carretta, Vincent, College professors, Equiano, Olaudah (1750-97), Literary criticism, Narratives, Slavery

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...Doubts on Parts of 18th-century Slave Narrative COLLEGE PARK, MD. Olaudah Equiano...few firstperson accounts by a slave of the brutal cross-Atlantic...one of the most widely taught slave narratives, Carrettas work, titled Equiano...
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Slave Narratives to Be Published on the Internet

Magazine article; Black Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 15, April 30, 1998

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Slave Narratives to Be Published on the Internet...HILL, N.C. -Two hundred slave narratives will be available...the Internet of all known slave narratives in English which...investigator, narratives by fugitive slaves before the Civil War and by...
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A World Enslaved: There Are Now More Slaves on the Planet Than at Any Time in Human History. True Abolition Will Elude Us until We Admit the Massive Scope of the Problem, Attack It in All Its Forms, and Empower Slaves to Help Free Themselves

Magazine article by E. Benjamin Skinner; Foreign Policy, March 2008

Subjects:

Human smuggling, Sex oriented businesses, Slave trade--Personal narratives, Slave trade--Prevention, United Nations--Powers and duties, Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act of 2000

Collections: History, Entire Library

...conventions have been signed banning the slave trade. Yet, today there are more slaves than at any time in human history...Some gained fame through dramatic slave rescues. Most learned that freeing slaves is impossible unless the slaves themselves...working without proper papers to be a slave. And, after they have been discovered...enforcement, few rich nations provide slaves with the kind of rehabilitation, retraining...
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The End of the Black American Narrative: A New Century Calls for New Stories Grounded in the Present, Leaving Behind the Painful History of Slavery and Its Consequences

Magazine article by Charles Johnson; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Summer 2008

Subjects:

African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature--Forecasts and trends, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--Forecasts and trends, Narratives--Criticism and interpretation, Narratives--Forecasts and trends

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...I argue that a dramatic narrative should leave the listener...beautifully embodies all these narrative virtues. The story begins...violence in the 17th-century slave forts sprinkled along the...Only 20 percent of those slaves survived the harrowing voyage...and again, the life of a slave--our not-so-distant...we study the classic slave narratives of Equiano or Frederick Douglass...
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Suicidal Vs. Life-giving Religious Narratives

Magazine article by Brian McLaren; Tikkun, Vol. 25, September 2010

Subjects:

Narratives, Religion, Society

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...alternatives to those three suicidal narratives. Lets consider them in reverse order...Godversus-creation, God-versus-us narrative. I feel that I should talk here...And that realization changes the narrative: you cannot have an usversus-them narrative. Suicidal religious narratives have to be converted into these kinds...

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Newspaper Articles on: slave narratives

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International Day for Remebrance of Slave Trade and Its Abolition

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 22, 2011

Subjects:

Slavery, Slaves

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in mines. The transatlantic slave trade began around the mid...readily available commodity - slaves. By the 17th century, the...to 30 million were sold as slaves in the combined slave trading systems. Although...threads of sometimes conflicting narratives that fill the silences of the...
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At Last I'm Beginning to Feel Free of the Traffickers; as a 'Sex Slave' Gang Is Jailed, One Young Woman Who First Described Her Own Terrible Ordeal to the Standard Reveals How a New Life in London Is Finally Helping to Heal Her

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 2, 2006

Subjects:

Sex oriented businesses--Personal narratives, Sex oriented businesses--Standards

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Last Im Beginning to Feel Free of the Traffickers; as a Sex Slave Gang Is Jailed, One Young Woman Who First Described Her Own...violent pimp named Niki Dimitrov, she spent a year as a sex slave in Londons suburbs, and was even advertised on the internet...was there for that." AS A result - like many former "sex slaves" - Natasha has barely spoken to anyone about her experience...
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I Made a Meal of It but It's Hard Being a Ryder Cup Slave; Ryder Rebel: Mahan Says U.S. Stars Are Losing Enthusiasm for the Ryder Cup but Rues Describing Them as Slaves

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 31, 2008

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Slavery--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

I Made a Meal of It but Its Hard Being a Ryder Cup Slave; Ryder Rebel: Mahan Says U.S. Stars Are Losing Enthusiasm for the Ryder Cup but Rues Describing Them as Slaves. Byline: DEREK LAWRENSON AMERICAN Hunter Mahan yesterday snapped off the chains to explain his extraordinary comment in...
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Researcher Gives a Voice to a Generation of Slaves

Newspaper article by Adrienne T. Washington; The Washington Times, February 2, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Southern dialect of the former slaves, who dictated their stories...saying she wants to ensure the slave narratives are printed "in as pure a...Wyant Howell says, show some slaves were treated better than others...the plantation. As former slave Jacob Branch said, "Slavery...
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Life on Plantations as Lived by the Slaves: Controversy Fades as Exhibit Is Big Hit at MLK Library

Newspaper article by Kate Mulligan; The Washington Times, February 1, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...trove" of images of slave dwellings that had been...oral histories of ex-slaves gathered during the...words drawn from the slave narratives and with period pictures...plantations wealth. Images of slave quarters follow, with...and talents shows how slaves created a buffer from...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: slave narratives

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African Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...singer) will accompany a narrative with music. Some of the...the West were the poignant slave narratives, such as The Interesting Narrative of the Life and Adventures...horrors of slavery and the slave trade. As Africans became...
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Pinto, FernÃo Mendes

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...journeying to far places and experiencing great hardships, including years as a slave. His account, Peregrinacao wanderings (1614), is one of the most colorful narratives of world travel literature. Its truthfulness has been questioned, but there...

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