Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature
Autor Leslie W. Lewisen Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 noi 2007
Telling Narratives analyzes key texts from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their many tellings have become slavery's legacy. By focusing on the ways secrets are told in texts by Jessie Fauset, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, and others, Leslie W. Lewis suggests an alternative model to the feminist dichotomy of "breaking silence" in response to sexual violence. This fascinating study also suggests that masculine bias problematically ignores female experience in order to equate slavery with social death. In calling attention to the sexual behavior of slave masters in African American literature, Lewis highlights its importance to slavery’s legacy and offers a new understanding of the origins of self-consciousness within African American experience.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780252032110
ISBN-10: 025203211X
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 4 photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 025203211X
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 4 photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
"Lewis's is the first book-length study of narrative secrets in African American literature. . . . Recommended."--Choice
"A provocative unveiling of secrets in African American literature from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1920s. Uncovering what was and is at stake in the discourse of secrecy in African American literature and culture, Lewis helps readers see its grounding in 'master-female slave moments.' The analysis of interracial and sexual secrets is enlightening and instructive."--William L. Andrews, editor of The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology
Notă biografică
Leslie W. Lewis is an associate professor of English at the College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York, and coeditor of Women’s Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945.
Descriere
Uncovering powerful and threatening secrets in African American literature