The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines ho

Six narrations by slave women about their lives during and after their years in bondage, honoring the nobility and strength of African-American women of that er

The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines ho

Women have had a complex experience in African American culture. The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia approaches African American literature from a Wom

Three contemporary novels of slavery - Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986) and Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) - are the