A study of post-slavery literatures in the Americas. Examining major novels from 1880 to the 1970s, the author shows how fiction from different nations shares what he calls textual simultaneity in revealing parallel narrative anxieties about genealogy, narrative authority and racial difference.
| ISBN: | 9780813919775 |
| Publication date: | 30th October 2000 |
| Author: | George B Handley |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 231 pages |
| Series: | New World Studies |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Ethnic studies Slavery and abolition of slavery Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |