Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
Read together, the "loyalist" plantation romance and the "fugitive" slave narrative speak to one another as symbiotic southern genres, even if only contrapuntally. The plantation romances exhibit considerable anxiety about the stability of the slaveholding South, while the slave...
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| Language: | English |
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2004-03-01
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| Series: | Southern Spaces |
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| Online Access: | https://southernspaces.org/node/42709 |