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1	Historiographic Metafiction and the Neo-slave Narrative: Pastiche and Polyphony in Caryl Phillips, Toni Morrison and Sherley Anne Williams Hawkins, Christiane 01 November 2012 (has links) The classic slave narrative recounted a fugitive slave’s personal story condemning slavery and hence working towards abolition. The neo-slave narrative underlines the slave’s historical legacy by unveiling the past through foregrounding African Atlantic experiences in an attempt to create a critical historiography of the Black Atlantic. The neo-slave narrative is a genre that emerged following World War II and presents us with a dialogue combining the history of 1970 - 2000. In this thesis I seek to explore how the contemporary counter-part of the classic slave narrative draws, reflects or diverges from the general conventions of its predecessor. I argue that by scrutinizing our notion of truth, the neo-slave narrative remains a relevant, important witness to the history of slavery as well as to today’s still racialized society. The historiographic metafiction of the neo-slave narrative rewrites history with the goal of digesting the past and ultimately leading to future reconciliation. Neo-slave narrative historiographic metafiction pastiche polyphony reconciliation
2	Seeking Freedom through Self-Love in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Beloved Walker, Stephanie 26 July 2012 (has links) Toni Morrison chose to revisit the neo-slave narrative genre twenty-five years after the publication of Beloved with A Mercy in 2008. With these two texts, Morrison offers her readers one story that shows the descent into slavery and one that shows progression towards freedom. The purpose of this thesis is to place Morrison’s two neo-slave narratives, Beloved and A Mercy, next to one another in order to better understand the journey to freedom through self-love. This work examines the concept of self-love and the necessary components—maternal nurturance, ancestral connection, and communal interaction—that must come together to help Morrison’s characters learn to love and see themselves as their “own best thing.” The repercussions that self-love’s absence has for both individual characters and their larger communities is also discussed and illustrated by the struggles of Florens in A Mercy and Sethe in Beloved. Motherhood Motherline Self-Love Toni Morrison Beloved A Mercy neo-slave narrative Community ancestral memory Arts and Humanities English Language and Literature
3	Bass Reeves: a History • a Novel • a Crusade, Volume 1: the Rise Thompson, Sidney, 1965- 08 1900 (has links) This literary/historical novel details the life of African-American Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves between the years 1838-1862 and 1883-1884. One plotline depicts Reeves’s youth as a slave, including his service as a body servant to a Confederate cavalry officer during the Civil War. Another plotline depicts him years later, after Emancipation, at the height of his deputy career, when he has become the most feared, most successful lawman in Indian Territory, the largest federal jurisdiction in American history and the most dangerous part of the Old West. A preface explores the uniqueness of this project’s historical relevance and literary positioning as a neo-slave narrative, and addresses a few liberties that I take with the historical record. Neo-slave narrative slavery Bass Reeves deputy US marshal Indian territory Old West Reeves, Bass -- Fiction.
4	THE TROPE OF DOMESTICITY: NEO- SLAVE NARRATIVE SATIRE ON PATRIARCHY AND BLACK MASCULINITY Coleman, Darrell Edward 20 June 2013 (has links) No description available. African American Studies African-American neo-slave narrative satiric first-person slave narrative Octavia Butler Kindred Charles Johnson Oxherding Tale Family Black Nationalism essentialism Moynihan Report Mikhail Bakhtin patriarchal

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