"I have often tried to write myself a pass": A Systemic-Functional Analysis of Discourse in Selected African American Slave Narratives

This dissertation uses a functional systemic approach to language to examine the construction of the respective first-person narrators of nine of the most popular, commercially successful and therefore influential African American slave narratives published between 1837 and 1862 (Roper, Grandy, Doug...

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Main Author: Pischel de Ascensao, Tobias
Other Authors: Prof. Dr. Oliver Grannis
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2004
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Online Access:https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2004090319