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The Wanderer in African American Literature

The Wanderer in African American Literature

Chandler-Smith, Gena E.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1621905292
ISBN13: 9781621905295
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Apr 23 2020
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The Wanderer in African American Literature highlights an enduring feature of African American letters: From the slave narrative to Afrofuturism, the literature is populated, driven, and emboldened by wanderers who know no bounds. Gena E. Chandler argues that wanderers and the theme of wandering push the limits of narrative forms and challenge assumptions about the African American experience.

The slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs echo eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literary traditions and chronicle journeys toward freedom and faith. Equiano traces his changing identity, integrating his native African culture with his adopted European one. Jacobs addresses the gender restrictions she faces as a slave and then a free woman whose progress in life remains uncertain and ongoing.

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