TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spaulding,A.Timothy
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Re-Forming the Past : : History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative / 
SN  - 9780814272756
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Columbus
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Johnson, Charles,
KW  - Morrison, Toni.
KW  - Butler, Octavia E.
KW  - Reed, Ishmael,
KW  - Johnson, Charles Richard,
KW  - Flight to Canada (Reed, Ishmael)
KW  - fast
KW  - Beloved (Morrison, Toni)
KW  - Roman
KW  - swd
KW  - Slaves in literature
KW  - l
KW  - Postmodernisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Slavernij
KW  - Slaven (arbeid)
KW  - Negers
KW  - Amerikaans
KW  - Fictie
KW  - Sklave
KW  - Motiv
KW  - gnd
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - Das Fantastische
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Postmodernism (Literature)
KW  - Historical fiction, American
KW  - Fantasy fiction, American
KW  - History
KW  - American fiction
KW  - African American authors
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Noirs americains dans la litterature
KW  - Postmodernisme (Litterature)
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Roman fantastique americain
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Roman historique americain
KW  - Roman americain
KW  - Auteurs noirs americains
KW  - Esclavage dans la litterature
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - USA
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Introduction -- The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart -- The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse -- Re-forming Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative; Open Access
N2  - "In Re-Forming the Past, A. Timothy Spaulding examines contemporary revisions of slave narratives that use elements of the fantastic to redefine the historical and literary constructions of American slavery. In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, postmodern slave narratives such as Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Charles Johnson's Ox Herding Tale and Middle Passage, Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, and Samuel Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand set out to counter the usual slave narrative's reliance on realism and objectivity by creating alternative histories based on subjective, fantastic, and non-realistic representations of slavery. As these texts critique traditional conceptions of history, identity, and aesthetic form, they simultaneously re-invest these concepts with a political agency that harkens back to the original project of the 19th-century slave narratives." "In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, Spaulding contextualizes postmodern slave narrative. By addressing both literary and popular African American texts, Re-Forming the Past expands discussions of both the African American literary tradition and postmodern culture."--Jacket
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/28266/
ER  -