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Telling Narratives

Name: Telling Narratives
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 04867981
Price: 51.07 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Leslie W. Lewis
ISBN: 9780252032110

Secrets in African American Literature

Leslie W. Lewis

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04867981

Publishers University of Illinois Press, November 2007

"Telling Narratives" analyzes key texts from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African America... Full description

Libristo code: 04867981

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"Telling Narratives" analyzes key texts from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their many tellings have become slavery's legacy. By focusing on the ways secrets are told in texts by Jessie Fauset, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, and others, Leslie W. Lewis suggests an alternative model to the feminist dichotomy of "breaking silence" in response to sexual violence. This fascinating study also suggests that masculine bias problematically ignores female experience in order to equate slavery with social death. In calling attention to the sexual behavior of slave masters in African American literature, Lewis highlights its importance to slavery's legacy and offers a new understanding of the origins of self-consciousness within African American experience.