Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind

by Tim A. Ryan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133221
• ISBN13: 9780807133224
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"