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Augustus - Narrative of a Slave Woman (Paperback)
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Augustus - Narrative of a Slave Woman (Paperback)
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When Professor Robin Greene tells a freshman composition class
about her scholarly interest in women's narratives, Samantha
Henderson, an African American student, invites Greene to meet her
grandmother and to listen to a series of reel-to-reel tapes that
both Samantha and her grandmother insist should be part of the
official WPA archive of ex-slave narratives. Intrigued, Greene
accepts the challenge of authenticating the recordings, but after a
full year of unproductive exchanges with historians and archivists,
a frustrated Greene decides to transcribe the tapes and to publish
the resulting narrative so that readers may judge for themselves if
the tapes are-or are not-authentic. In her transcription, Greene
presents the first-person account of Sarah Louise Augustus, who
comes of age during the Civil War and whose story involves a
head-on collision with the moral ambiguities of slavery. Readers
follow Sarah Louise as she becomes Augustus-the name she assumes
when she takes control of her destiny. Her story begins in the
antebellum period and unfolds as Augustus recollects a brutal war
and its social carnage. Readers also discover the connections that
bind Greene, Sarah Louise, Samantha, and Samantha's grandmother-for
these women, surprisingly, share much in common. As a work of
historical fiction, Greene's account focuses light on black
feminism, on race-specific reactions to historical inquiry, on
sexuality and rape, and on the quest for identity. And Greene, who
in "real life" teaches English and Writing at Methodist University,
becomes Professor Greene, the fictional narrator whose story frames
the narrative and whose own scholarly need for authenticity and
precision nearly costs her more than she is willing to lose.
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