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The Re-formation of Imaginative Testimony: A Look at the Historical Influences and Contemporary Conventions of the Neo-Slave Narrative Genre

Poole, Chamere R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1290296419

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2010, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
This thesis presents the author’s perspective on the influence(s), audience(s), and rhetoric(s) of America’s neo-slave narratives, and attempts to explore the cultural work that neo-slave narratives do within the field of African American Literature. Beginning with a consideration of the creation and usage of Antebellum slave narratives, the author transitions into a discussion on neo-slave narrative texts by exploring a critical perspective expressed by the literary scholar H. A. Rushdy . Believing Rushdy’s proposition that the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement were two influential events behind the creation of neo-slave narratives in the 1960s, the author attempts to further explore what actual elements of these movements were, and continue to be, appropriated by neo-slave narrative authors. Through an analysis of two texts: Margaret Walker’s Jubilee, and James McBride’s Song Yet Sung the author focuses on the particular elements of these social movements, as well as the responses that these contemporary authors have had to these events that have been incorporated into the plots of their neo-slave narrative texts.
Stefanie Dunning (Committee Chair)
Cheryl Johnson (Committee Member)
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis (Committee Member)
36 p.
African American Studies; Black History
Neo-slave; Margaret Walker; Jubilee; Edward P. Jones; Song Yet Sung

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  • Poole, C. R. (2010). The Re-formation of Imaginative Testimony: A Look at the Historical Influences and Contemporary Conventions of the Neo-Slave Narrative Genre [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1290296419

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Poole, Chamere. The Re-formation of Imaginative Testimony: A Look at the Historical Influences and Contemporary Conventions of the Neo-Slave Narrative Genre. 2010. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1290296419.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Poole, Chamere. "The Re-formation of Imaginative Testimony: A Look at the Historical Influences and Contemporary Conventions of the Neo-Slave Narrative Genre." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1290296419

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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