Table of Contents

Chronology; Introduction Audrey A. Fisch; Part I. The Slave Narrative and Transnational Abolitionism: 1. The rise, development, and circulation of the slave narrative Philip Gould; 2. Politics and political philosophy in the slave narrative Dickson D. Bruce, Jr; 3. Olaudah Equiano: African-British abolitionist and founder of the African-American slave narrative Vincent Carretta; 4. The slave narrative and the literature of abolition Kerry Sinanan; Part II. The Slave Narrative and Anglo-American Literary Traditions: 5. Redeeming bondage: the captivity narrative and the spiritual autobiography in the African American slave narrative tradition Yolanda Pierce; 6. The slave narrative and the Revolutionary tradition of American autobiography Robert S. Levine; 7. The slave narrative and sentimental literature Cindy Weinstein; Part III. The Slave Narrative and the African-American Literary Tradition: 8. The slave narrative and early Black American literature Robert F. Reid-Pharr; 9. Telling slavery in 'Freedom's' time: post-reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance Deborah E. McDowell; 10. Neo-slave narratives Valerie Smith; Part IV. The Slave Narrative and the Politics of Knowledge: 11. Harriet Jacobs: a case history of authentication Stephanie A. Smith; 12. Frederick Douglass's self fashioning and the making of a representative American man John Stauffer; 13. Beyond Douglass and Jacobs John Ernest; 14. Black womanhood in North American women's slave narratives Xiomara Santamarina; Guide to further reading.

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This Companion examines the slave narrative in relation to its historical context as well as the African American literary tradition.

About the Author

Audrey Fisch is Professor in the Departments of English and Elementary and Secondary Education at New Jersey City University.

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