<p> This dissertation explores the unhomely nature of the slave system as experienced by fugitive and captive slaves within slave and neo-slave narratives. The purpose of this project is to broaden the discourse of migration narratives set during the antebellum period. I argue that the unhomely manifests through corporeal, psychological, historical, and geographical descriptions found within each narrative and it is through these manifestations that a broader discourse of identity can be generated. I turn to four slave and neo-slave narratives for this dissertation: Solomon Northup’s <i>Twelve Years a Slave</i> (1853), Frederick Douglass’s <i>My Bondage and My Freedom</i> (1855), Octavia Butler’s <i>Kindred </i> (1979), and Toni Morrison’s <i>Beloved</i> (1987). </p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:10163331 |
| Date | 01 December 2016 |
| Creators | Keadle, Elizabeth Ann |
| Publisher | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| Source Sets | ProQuest.com |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
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