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Although works by Afro-American writers are the primary focus, the authors also examine antislavery novels by white women. Hortense J. Spillers gives extensive attention to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", in juxtaposition with Ishmael Reed's "Flight to Canada"; Carolyn L. Karcher reads Lydia Maria Child's "A Romance of the Republic" as an abolitionist vision of America's racial destiny.
In a concluding chapter, Deborah E. McDowell's reading of "Desa Rose" reveals how slavery and freedom-- dominant themes in nineteenth-century black literature-- continue to command the attention of contemporary authors.
Author: Deborah E. McDowell
ISBN-10: 0801839483
ISBN-13: 9780801839481
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/19/1989
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.28w x 0.50d
Deborah E. McDowell is associate professor of English at the Univeristy of Virginia. Arnold Rampersad is professor of English at Columbia Univeristy.
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