African American servitude and historical imaginings [electronic resource] : retrospective fiction and representation / Margaret I. Jordan.
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TextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.Description: xv, 284 pSubject(s): - Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948- Middle passage
- Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Band of angels
- Doctorow, E. L., 1931- Ragtime
- Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon
- Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- African Americans in literature
- Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Household employees in literature
- Slavery in literature
- PS374.N4 J67 2004eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index.
Introduction. Imagining the past ; The African American servant : cultural artifact and agent in place -- What made Amantha lean? : racial fanaticism in the 1950s and the rationalization of slavery in Robert Penn Warren's Band of angels -- A washerwoman wreaks havoc : moral reckoning and the "national soul" in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime -- "Evolve or die" : rewriting "the disfiguring hand of servitude" in Charles Johnson's Middle passage -- Elegy for a dream : Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.
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