African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings: Retrospective Fiction and Representation

by Margaret Jordan

In African-American Servitude and Historical Imaginings Margaret Jordan initiates a new way of looking at the African American presence in American literature. Twentieth-century retrospective fiction is the site for this compelling investigation about how African American servants and slaves have enormous utility as cultural artifacts, objects to be acted upon, agents in place, or agents provocateurs. Jordan argues that those who even those seemingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349528560
• ISBN13: 9781349528561
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"