Conjured bodies, trickster voices: Transforming narrative, history, and identity in the literature of slavery

This dissertation examines slave narratives, neo-slave narratives, and histories of slavery. Using critical race theory, narrative theory, and philosophical critiques of objectivity, I trace how academic histories, such as U. B. Phillips's American Negro Slavery, developed a grammar of white su...

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Main Author: Lane, Suzanne Therese
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2000
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9988812