02241nam a2200409Ia 4500 ebr10135462 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 040305s2004 nyu sb 001 0 eng d 2004044579 1403978328 1403964971 (hc : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)560463066 PS374.N4 J67 2004eb Jordan, Margaret I. African American servitude and historical imaginings [electronic resource] : retrospective fiction and representation / Margaret I. Jordan. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xv, 284 p. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 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. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10135462 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 85482 85482