Description: Fugitive Texts : Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture, Paperback by Roy, Michaël; Pickford, Susan (TRN), ISBN 0299338444, ISBN-13 9780299338442, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Antebellum slave narratives have taken pride of place in the American literary canon. Once ignored, disparaged, or simply forgotten, the autobiographical narratives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and other formerly enslaved men and women are now widely read and studied. One key aspect of the genre, however, has been left unexamined: its materiality. What did original editions of slave narratives look like? How were thess circulated? Who read them? In Fugitive Texts, Michaël Roy offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he reconstructs the publication histories of a number of famous and lesser-known narratives, placing them against the changing backdrop of antebellum print culture. Slave narratives, he shows, were produced through a variety of print networks. Remarkably few were published under the full control of white-led antislavery societies; most were self-published and distributed by the authors, while some were issued by commercial publishers who hoped to capitalize on the success of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The material lives of these texts, Roy argues, did not end within the pages. Antebellum slave narratives were “fugitive texts” apt to be embodied in various written, oral, and visual forms. Published to rave reviews in French, Fugitive Texts illuminates the heterogeneous nature of a genre often described in monolithic terms and ultimately paves the way for a redefinition of the literary form we have come to recognize as “the slave narrative.”
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Book Title: Fugitive Texts : Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture
Number of Pages: 234 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Fugitive Texts : Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: American / African American, United States / 19th Century, American / General
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Author: Michaël Roy
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
