Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form.

African American Review | March 22, 2002| | Copyright

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy. Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 286 pp. $45.00.

Many African-American novels have a political sub text, however veiled it may be, and this is especially true of neo-slave narratives, which seek to re-articulate the community's historical memory. Ashraf Rushdy concentrates on the political sub texts of four novels--Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada, Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose, and Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale and Middle Passage--and upon the political discourses that make ...

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