Neo-slave Narratives - Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. (Associate Professor of African American Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Wesleyan University)

This is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. The text explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, and asks how African-American intellectuals made use of this form.