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Journeys of the slave narrative in the early Americas

Title
Journeys of the slave narrative in the early Americas / edited by Nicole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth.
Publication
Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Aljoe, Nicole N.
  • Finseth, Ian Frederick
Description
viii, 239 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"This volume includes interdisciplinary essays on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on lesser known examples of the genre"--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
New World studies
Uniform Title
New World studies.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Remapping the early slave narrative / Nicole N. Aljoe -- Irony and modernity in the early slave narrative: bonds of duty, contracts of meaning / Ian Finseth -- Trials and confessions of fugitive slave narratives / Gretchen J. Woertendyke -- "They us'd me pretty well": Briton Hammon and cross-cultural alliances in the maritime borderlands of the Florida coast / Jeffrey Gagnon -- Uncommon sufferings: Rethinking bondage in A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man / Keith Michael Green -- Narrating an indigestible trauma: the alimentary grammar of Boyrereau Brinch's middle passage / Lynn R. Johnson -- "The most perfect picture of Cuban slavery": transatlantic bricolage in Manzano's and Madden's Poems by a Slave / R.J. Boutelle -- Seeking a righteous king: a Bahamian runaway slave in Cuba / Jose Guadalupe Ortega -- Literary form and Islamic identity in The Life of Omar Ibn Said / Basima Kamel Shaheen -- Animating absence / Kristina Bross.
Call Number
Sc E 15-113
ISBN
  • 9780813936376
  • 0813936373
  • 9780813936383
  • 0813936381
  • 9780813936390 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2014017088
  • 40024316180
OCLC
880566274
Title
Journeys of the slave narrative in the early Americas / edited by Nicole N. Aljoe and Ian Finseth.
Publisher
Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New World studies
New World studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Aljoe, Nicole N., editor.
Finseth, Ian Frederick, editor.
Other Standard Identifier
40024316180
Research Call Number
Sc E 15-113
JFE 16-537
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