The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative 1st Edition by John Ernest ISBN 0199731489 9780199731480

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ISBN 10: 0199731489 
ISBN 13: 9780199731480
Author: John Ernest

The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative 1st Table of contents:

• Part I: Historical Fractures

  • This section likely delves into the historical contexts and disruptions that shaped the creation and reception of slave narratives.
  • Possible chapter topics include:
    • Slave Narratives and Historical Memory (Mitch Kachun)
    • Slave Narratives and Archival Research (Eric Gardner)
    • Slave Narratives and Historical Understanding (Dickson Bruce)
    • Slave Narratives and U.S. Legal History (Jeannine DeLombard)

• Part II: Layered Testimonies

  • Focus on the various forms and layers of slave testimony, including oral histories.
  • Possible chapter topics include:
    • The WPA Narratives as Historical Sources (Marie Jenkins Schwartz)
    • The Other Slave Narratives: the Works Progress Administration Interviews (Sharon Ann Musher)
    • Lost in the Archives: The Pension Bureau Files (Elizabeth Regosin)
    • The Witness of African American Folkways: The Landscape of Slave Narratives (John Michael Vlach)

• Part III: Textual Bindings

  • Examines the narratives as literary and cultural texts, and their interaction with various discourses.
  • Possible chapter topics include:
    • Slave Narratives as Texts (Teresa Goddu)
    • Reading Communities: Slave Narratives and the Discursive Reader (Dwight McBride and Justin A. Joyce)
    • Slave Narratives and American Literary Studies (Kenneth Warren)
    • Slave Narratives and Visual Culture (Marcus Wood)
    • Post-Emancipation Slave Narratives (William Andrews)

• Part IV: Experience and Authority

  • Focuses on themes of personal experience, identity, and the assertion of authority within the narratives.
  • Possible chapter topics include:
    • “This Horrible Exhibition”: Sexuality in Slave Narratives (Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman)
    • “There is Might in Each”: Slave Narratives and Black Feminism (DoVeanna Fulton)
    • “I Rose a Freeman”: Power, Property and the Performance of Manhood in Slave Narratives (Maurice O. Wallace)
    • Beyond the Protagonist: Families and Communities in Slave Narratives (Brenda Stevenson)
    • Collaborative Slave Narratives (Barbara McCaskill)

• Part V: Environments and Migrations

  • Explores the geographical, environmental, and transatlantic dimensions of slave narratives.
  • Possible chapter topics include:
    • The Ecology of Slave Narratives (Kimberly Smith)
    • Locating Slave Narratives (Rhondda R. Thomas)
    • Slave Narratives and Hemispheric Studies (Winfried Siemerling)
    • Caribbean Slave Narratives (Nicole N. Aljoe)
    • Slave Narratives and Transatlantic Literature (Helen Thomas)

• Part VI: Echoes and Traces

  • Considers the legacy and imaginative afterlife of slave narratives in subsequent literature and culture.
  • Possible chapter topics include:
    • Slave Narratives and the Performance of Race and Freedom (Daphne Brooks)
    • “The Truth of Slave Narratives”: Slavery’s Traces in Postmemory (Joycelyn Moody)
    • Neo-slave narratives (e.g., in works by Styron, Morrison, Butler)

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