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Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies,
The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative will offer a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre.
List of contents
- The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative
- Contents
- John Ernest, Introduction
- Historical Fractures
- 1. Mitch Kachun. Slave Narratives and Historical Memory
- 2. Eric Gardner. Slave Narratives and Archival Research
- 3. Dickson Bruce. Slave Narratives and Historical Understanding
- 4. Jeannine DeLombard. Slave Narratives and U.S. Legal History
- Layered Testimonies
- 5. Marie Jenkins Schwartz. The WPA Narratives as Historical Sources
- 6. Sharon Ann Musher. The Other Slave Narratives: the Works Progress Administration Interviews
- 7. Elizabeth Regosin. Lost in the Archives: The Pension Bureau Files
- 8. John Michael Vlach. The Witness of African American Folkways: The Landscape of Slave Narratives
- Textual Bindings
- 9. Teresa Goddu. Slave Narratives as Texts
- 10. Dwight McBride and Justin A. Joyce. Reading Communities: Slave Narratives and the Discursive Reader
- 11. Kenneth Warren. Slave Narratives and American Literary Studies
- 12. Marcus Wood. Slave Narratives and Visual Culture
- 13. William Andrews. Post-Emancipation Slave Narratives
- Experience and Authority
- 14. Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman. "This Horrible Exhibition": Sexuality in Slave Narratives
- 15. DoVeanna Fulton. "There is Might in Each": Slave Narratives and Black Feminism
- 16. Maurice O. Wallace. "I Rose a Freeman": Power, Property and the Performance of Manhood in Slave Narratives
- 17. Brenda Stevenson. Beyond the Protagonist: Families and Communities in Slave Narratives
- 18. Barbara McCaskill. Collaborative Slave Narratives
- Environments and Migrations
- 19. Kimberly Smith. The Ecology of Slave Narratives
- 20. Rhondda R. Thomas. Locating Slave Narratives
- 21. Winfried Siemerling. Slave Narratives and Hemispheric Studies
- 22. Nicole N. Aljoe. Caribbean Slave Narratives
- 23. Helen Thomas. Slave Narratives and Transatlantic Literature
- Echoes and Traces
- 24. Daphne Brooks. Slave Narratives and the Performance of Race and Freedom
- 25. Joycelyn Moody. "The Truth of Slave Narratives": Slavery's Traces in Postmemory
About the author
John Ernest is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature. He is the author of Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature and Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861.
Summary
Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative will offer a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre.
