Slavery and the Literary Imagination

Book Overview

Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)--treated in chapted by Jamkes Olney and William L. Andrews--to Sherley Anne Williams'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 Salvery (1901). Hazel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801839483
• ISBN13: 9780801839481
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher