{"product_id":"fugitive-texts-michal-roy-9780299338404","title":"Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture","description":"Antebellum slave narratives have taken pride of place in the American literary canon. Once ignored, disparaged, or simply forgotten, the autobiographical narratives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and other formerly enslaved men and women are now widely read and studied. One key aspect of the genre, however, has been left unexamined: its materiality. What did original editions of slave narratives look like? How were these books circulated? Who read them? \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eFugitive Texts\u003c\/i\u003e, Michaël Roy offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he reconstructs the publication histories of a number of famous and lesser-known narratives, placing them against the changing backdrop of antebellum print culture. Slave narratives, he shows, were produced through a variety of print networks. Remarkably few were published under the full control of white-led antislavery societies; most were self-published and distributed by the authors, while some were issued by commercial publishers who hoped to capitalize on the success of Harriet Beecher Stowe's \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e. The material lives of these texts, Roy argues, did not end within the pages. Antebellum slave narratives were \"fugitive texts\" apt to be embodied in various written, oral, and visual forms. \u003cbr\u003e Published to rave reviews in French, \u003ci\u003eFugitive Texts \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates the heterogeneous nature of a genre often described in monolithic terms and ultimately paves the way for a redefinition of the literary form we have come to recognize as \"the slave narrative.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michaël Roy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299338401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299338404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.06w x 0.71d","brand":"Michaël Roy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070636060927,"sku":"9780299338404","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c077679-71a8-4533-b487-0c22fe328aba.jpg?v=1685431474","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fugitive-texts-michal-roy-9780299338404","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}