Power of Neo-Slave Fiction and Public History - From Slavery to the Enslaved

The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves the focus from slavery to the enslaved-from the institution to the personal, families and feminist accounts.

List of contents

Contents
Abstract
Dedication
Acronyms and abbreviations
Acknolwedgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: From slavery to the enslaved: new paradigms, neo-slave fiction, a shared history and higher-order historical thinking
Chapter 2 Slavery and the enslaved: breaking boundaries with neo-slave narratives
Chapter 3 Antebellum neo-slave narratives, history and historiography: higher-order thinking and a public history
Chapter 4 The enslaved, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapter 5 Jim Crow and slavery's immediate aftermath
General conclusions
Bibliography

About the author

Grant Rodwell is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at The University of Newcastle, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Grant (The University of Newcastle Rodwell, Rodwell Grant
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032451282
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245128-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, North America, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, History of the Americas, Specific wars and campaigns, HISTORY / African American & Black, Civil wars, American Civil War, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Literary studies: postcolonial literature