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Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind

Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind

Ryan, Tim A.

Hardcover

Series: Southern Literary Studies

Literary CriticismHistoriography

ISBN10: 0807133221
ISBN13: 9780807133224
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Jun 1 2008
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.74
Language: English

In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed to the traditional, racist fiction (and history) created by whites, Ryan suggests that discourses about American slavery are -- and have always been -- defined by connections rather than disjunctions. Ryan contends that African American writers didn't merely reject and move beyond traditional portrayals of the black past but rather actively engaged in a dynamic dialogue with white-authored versions of slavery and existing historiographical debates. The result is an ongoing cultural conversation that transcends both racial and disciplinary boundaries and is akin to the call-and-response style of African American gospel music.

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