Postslavery literatures in the Americas : family portraits in black and white /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Handley, George B., 1964-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000.
Series:	New World studies.
Subjects:	Domestic fiction, American > History and criticism. Slavery in literature. Comparative literature > American and Caribbean (Spanish) Comparative literature > Caribbean (Spanish) and American. Caribbean fiction (Spanish) > History and criticism. African American families in literature. Plantation life in literature. Blacks in literature. Whites in literature. Race in literature. Cuba > In literature.

Table of Contents:

Narrative and genealogy: toward a postnational study of postslavery literatures
Reading in the dark: Cirilo Villaverde and George Washington Cable
Reading behind the face: Martín Morúa Delgado, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Frances E.W. Harper
Between the insular self and the exotic other: Alejo Carpentier and William Faulkner
The emancipation of/from history: Jean Rhys, Rosario Ferré, and Toni Morrison.