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The Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature

The Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature

Adéèkó, Adélékè

Paperback

Series: Blacks in the Diaspora

Literary CriticismBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0253217776
ISBN13: 9780253217776
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jul 21 2005
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.26 Depth: 8.88
Language: English

Episodes of slave rebellions such as Nat Turner's are central to speculations on the trajectory of black history and the goal of black spiritual struggles. Using fiction, history, and oral poetry drawn from the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa, this book analyzes how writers reinterpret episodes of historical slave rebellion to conceptualize their understanding of an ideal master-less future. The texts range from Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave and Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of this World to Yoruba praise poetry and novels by Nigerian writers Adebayo Faleti and Akinwumi Isola. Each text reflects different national attitudes toward the historicity of slave rebellions that shape the ways the texts are read. This is an absorbing book about the grip of slavery and rebellion on modern black thought.

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