Re-forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative

Re-forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative
ISBN-10
0814210066
ISBN-13
9780814210062
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
148
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Author
A. Timothy Spaulding

Description

Classifies the postmodern slave narratives of Ishmael Reed, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Jewelle Gomez, and Samuel Delaney under one conceptual framework--"re-forming" the past--and argues that their distinctly African American form ofpostmodern slave narrative forces the reader to question the ideologies set forth by earlier, "realistic" depictions of slavery.

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