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The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel (Paperback)
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The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel (Paperback)
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Conceived as a literary form to aggressively publicize the
abolitionist cause in the United States, the African American slave
narrative remains a powerful and illuminating demonstration of
America's dark history. Yet the genre's impact extended far beyond
the borders of the U.S. The American Slave Narrative and the
Victorian Novel investigates the shaping influence of writings by
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and other former slaves on
British fiction in the years between the Abolition Act and the
Emancipation Proclamation. Julia Sun-Joo Lee argues that novelists
such as Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens
integrated into their works generic elements of the slave
narrative-from the emphasis on literacy as a tool of liberation, to
the teleological journey from slavery to freedom, to the ethics of
resistance over submission. It contends that Victorian novelists
used these tropes in an attempt to access the slave narrative's
paradigm of resistance, illuminate the transnational dimension of
slavery, and articulate Britain's role in the global community.
Through a deft use of disparate sources, Lee reveals how the slave
narrative becomes part of the textual network of the English novel,
making visible how black literary, as well as economic, production
contributed to British culture.
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