Jordan, Margaret I.
African American servitude and historical imaginings retrospective fiction and representation / [electronic resource] : Margaret I. Jordan. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. - xv, 284 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index.
Introduction. Imagining the past ; The African American servant : cultural artifact and agent in place -- What made Amantha lean? : racial fanaticism in the 1950s and the rationalization of slavery in Robert Penn Warren's Band of angels -- A washerwoman wreaks havoc : moral reckoning and the "national soul" in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime -- "Evolve or die" : rewriting "the disfiguring hand of servitude" in Charles Johnson's Middle passage -- Elegy for a dream : Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Johnson, Charles Richard, Middle passage. 1948-
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Band of angels.
Doctorow, E. L., 1931- Ragtime.
Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon.
Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
African Americans in literature.
Literature and history--History--United States--20th century.
Household employees in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Electronic books.
PS374.N4 / J67 2004eb
African American servitude and historical imaginings retrospective fiction and representation / [electronic resource] : Margaret I. Jordan. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. - xv, 284 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index.
Introduction. Imagining the past ; The African American servant : cultural artifact and agent in place -- What made Amantha lean? : racial fanaticism in the 1950s and the rationalization of slavery in Robert Penn Warren's Band of angels -- A washerwoman wreaks havoc : moral reckoning and the "national soul" in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime -- "Evolve or die" : rewriting "the disfiguring hand of servitude" in Charles Johnson's Middle passage -- Elegy for a dream : Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Johnson, Charles Richard, Middle passage. 1948-
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Band of angels.
Doctorow, E. L., 1931- Ragtime.
Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon.
Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
African Americans in literature.
Literature and history--History--United States--20th century.
Household employees in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Electronic books.
PS374.N4 / J67 2004eb