African American servitude and historical imaginings [electronic resource] : retrospective fiction and representation / Margaret I. Jordan.
By: Jordan, Margaret I.
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BookPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004Description: xv, 284 p.Subject(s): Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948- Middle passage | 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 -- 20th century -- History and criticism | African Americans in literature | Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Household employees in literature | Slavery in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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