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African American servitude and historical imaginings

by Jordan, Margaret I.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Palgrave Macmillan, (New York :) Physical details: xv, 284 p.
Subject(s): Johnson, Charles Richard, -- 1948- -- Middle passage. | Warren, Robert Penn, -- 1905-1989. -- Band of angels. | Doctorow, E. L., -- 1931- -- Ragtime. | Morrison, Toni. -- Song of Solomon. | Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism. | American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. | African Americans in literature. | Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century. | Household employees in literature. | Slavery in literature. | Electronic books.
Year: 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index.

Introduction. Imagining the past ; The African American servant : cultural artifact and agent in place -- What made Amantha lean? : racial fanaticism in the 1950s and the rationalization of slavery in Robert Penn Warren's Band of angels -- A washerwoman wreaks havoc : moral reckoning and the "national soul" in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime -- "Evolve or die" : rewriting "the disfiguring hand of servitude" in Charles Johnson's Middle passage -- Elegy for a dream : Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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