TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordan,Margaret I.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - African American servitude and historical imaginings: retrospective fiction and representation 
AV  - PS374.N4 J67 2004eb
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Johnson, Charles Richard,
KW  - Warren, Robert Penn,
KW  - Doctorow, E. L.,
KW  - Morrison, Toni.
KW  - Historical fiction, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Literature and history
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Household employees in literature
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
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ER  -