Neo-slave Narratives Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Wesleyan University)

Name: Neo-slave Narratives By Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Wesleyan University)
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Neo-slave Narratives by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Wesleyan University)

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SeriesRace and American Culture

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This is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. The text explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, and asks how African-American intellectuals made use of this form.

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Neo-slave Narratives Summary

Neo-slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Wesleyan University)

Neo-slave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, the author explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African-American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent the crucial cultural debates that arose during the sixties.

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Rushdy's book tells us a great deal not just about the four novels he reads closely, but also about the American conceptions of slavery and race in the second half of the Twentieth century; we walk away from Neo Slave Narratives with a multilayered sense of what Rushdy calls the social logic of the form, a logic which demonstrates that form is not extrinsic to historical understanding but rather constitutive of it. In short, Rushdy approaches his texts as complex objects circulating in many intersecting exchanges and listens carefully for the whistling and humming around him. * Eric Gardner, Theory and Cultural Studies *

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CIN0195125339G

ISBN 13

9780195125337

ISBN 10

0195125339

Title

Neo-slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Wesleyan University)

Author

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Wesleyan University)

Series

Race and American Culture

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

19991202

Number of pages

296

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