The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative (Cambridge Companions to Literature) PDF
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the cambridge companion to the african american slave narrative Theslavenarrativehasemergedasafundamentalgenrewithinliterarystudies. ThisCompanionexaminestheslavenarrative’srelationtotransatlanticaboli- tionism,BritishandAmericanliterarytraditionsincludingcaptivitynarratives, autobiography,andsentimentalliterature,andthelargerAfricanAmericanlit- erarytradition.Thevolumealsoexploresthehistoryofthegenre,includingits rediscoveryandauthentication,itssubsequentcriticalreception,anditscontin- uedimportancetomodernauthorssuchasToniMorrisonandEdwardP.Jones. Attentionispaidbothtowell-knownslavenarratives,suchasthosebyOlau- dah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, and to a wide range of lesser-knownnarratives.Withitschronologyandguidetofurtherreading,the Companionprovidesbothaneasyentrypointforstudentsnewtothesubject andcomprehensivecoverageandoriginalinsightsforscholarsinthefield. audrey fisch is Professor in the Departments of English and Elementary andSecondaryEducationatNewJerseyCityUniversity. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVE NARRATIVE EDITED BY AUDREY A. FISCH NewJerseyCityUniversity cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521615266 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2007 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2007 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary isbn 978-0-521-85019-3hardback isbn 978-0-521-61526-6paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofURLsfor externalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication,anddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. ForMarkFlynnandMaxFlysch CONTENTS Listofcontributors page ix Acknowledgments xii Chronology xiii 1 Introduction audrey a. fisch part i: the slave narrative and transnational abolitionism 1 Therise,development,andcirculationoftheslavenarrative 11 philip gould 2 Politicsandpoliticalphilosophyintheslavenarrative 28 dickson d. bruce, jr. 3 OlaudahEquiano:AfricanBritishabolitionistandfounderofthe 44 AfricanAmericanslavenarrative vincent carretta 4 Theslavenarrativeandtheliteratureofabolition 61 kerry sinanan part ii: the slave narrative and anglo-american literary traditions 5 Redeemingbondage:thecaptivitynarrativeandthespiritual 83 autobiographyintheAfricanAmericanslavenarrativetradition yolanda pierce vii contents 6 TheslavenarrativeandtherevolutionarytraditionofAmerican 99 autobiography robert s. levine 7 Theslavenarrativeandsentimentalliterature 115 cindy weinstein part iii: the slave narrative and the african american literary tradition 8 TheslavenarrativeandearlyBlackAmericanliterature 137 robert f. reid-pharr 9 Tellingslaveryin“freedom’s”time:post-Reconstructionandthe 150 HarlemRenaissance deborah e. mcdowell 10 Neo-slavenarratives 168 valerie smith part iv: the slave narrative and the politics of knowledge 11 HarrietJacobs:acasehistoryofauthentication 189 stephanie a. smith 12 FrederickDouglass’sself-fashioningandthemakingofa 201 RepresentativeAmericanman john stauffer 13 BeyondDouglassandJacobs 218 john ernest 14 BlackwomanhoodinNorthAmericanwomen’sslavenarratives 232 xiomara santamarina 246 Guidetofurtherreading 259 Index viii CONTRIBUTORS dickson d. bruce, jr., isProfessorofHistoryattheUniversityofCalifornia, Irvine.HisbooksincludeBlackAmericanWritingfromtheNadir:TheEvolution ofaLiteraryTradition,1877–1915(1989)andTheOriginsofAfricanAmerican Literature, 1680–1865 (2001). His most recent book, The Kentucky Tragedy: A StoryofConflictandChangeinAntebellumAmerica,waspublishedin2006. vincent carretta is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. His publications include the following editions: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting NarrativeandOtherWritings(1995;rev.edn.2003);LettersoftheLateIgnatius Sancho,AnAfrican(1998);QuobnaOttobahCugoano,ThoughtsandSentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Other Writings (1999); Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings (2001); and Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-SpeakingWorldoftheEighteenthCentury(1996;rev.edn.2004).With PhilipGould,Carrettahasco-editedandcontributedtoGeniusinBondage:Litera- tureoftheEarlyBlackAtlantic(2001).HismostrecentbookisOlaudahEquiano, theAfrican:BiographyofaSelf-MadeMan(2005). john ernest istheEberlyFamilyDistinguishedProfessorofAmericanLiterature at West Virginia University. He is the author of Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-CenturyAfrican-AmericanLiterature:Brown,Wilson,Jacobs,Delany, Douglass, and Harper (1995) and Liberation Historiography: African American WritersandtheChallengeofHistory,1794–1861(2004).Hiseditionsoftextsby nineteenth-centuryAfricanAmericanwritersincludeWilliamWellsBrown’sThe Escape;or,ALeapforFreedom(2001)andWilliamCraft’sRunningaThousand MilesforFreedom;Or,TheEscapeofWilliamandEllenCraftfromSlavery(2000). audrey a. fisch isProfessorintheDepartmentsofEnglishandElementaryand Secondary Education at New Jersey City University. She is the co-editor of The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein (1993) and the author of American SlavesinVictorianEngland:AbolitionistPoliticsinPopularLiteratureandCulture (Cambridge,2000). ix
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