Revisiting Slave Narratives I Les avatars contemporains des récits d'esclaves

• Other Authors: Misrahi-Barak, Judith (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Montpellier Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2005
• Series: Horizons anglophones
• Subjects: Literary studies: general; postcolonial; slave narrative; Caribbean literature; African-American literature
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One cannot fail to be impressed by the number of works of fiction relating to slavery and the slave trade, writing back to the original slave narratives of the 18th and 19th centuries. If the African-American authors of the 1960s and 1970s are now well-known, they find an echo in works written more...