retrospective fiction and representation Jordan, Margaret I. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. nyu New York Palgrave Macmillan 2004 monographic eng

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xv, 284 p. 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. Margaret I. Jordan. Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Middle passage Johnson, Charles Richard 1948- Warren, Robert Penn 1905-1989 Doctorow, E. L 1931- Morrison, Toni 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 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10135462 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10135462 CaPaEBR 040305 ebr10135462