William Tynes Cowa

The Slave in the Swamp

Disrupting the Plantation Narrative

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Produktbeschreibung

In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring "bogey-man" whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps with its wild and threatening connotations, the runaway gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open rebellion. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the free slave in the swamp from its untouchable, abstract state to a form that could be possessed, understood, and controlled. Essentially, writers defending the institution would conjure forth the rebellious image in order to dispel it safely.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415972161
• ISBN-10: 0415972167
• Artikelnr.: 21635132

Autorenporträt

William Tynes Cowan

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Into the Dismal Swamp
Identity and the Dynamics of Space
Chapter 2 Sambo, Nat, and the Gentleman Planter: Notions of Self on the Plantation
Chapter 3 The Slave in the Swamp: Claiming Space
Chapter 4 John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn and the Birth of Plantation Literature
Literary Swamps of the 1850s
Chapter 5 Proslavery Writers in the Wake of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Chapter 6 African American Views of the Swamp: Slave Narratives and Early Fiction
Chapter 7 Stowe's Dred and the Discourse of Violence in the 1850s
Reconciliation and Lost Cause
Chapter 8 Dredging the Swamps: Joel Chandler Harris and the Packaging of African American Folklore
Chapter 9 The Cult of the Lost Cause and Thomas Nelson Pages "No Haid Pawn"
Chapter 10 George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes and Plantation Narrative(s)
Chapter 11 Conclusion: The Body of the Maroon