The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative

Book Overview

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521615267
• ISBN13: 9780521615266
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"