The Slave Narrative as Material Text
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20009141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Teresa A Goddu (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook Of The African American Slave Narrative (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199731480.013.010 |
| OpenAlex | W2623807483 |
| ISBN | 9780199731480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This article examines the antebellum African American slave narrative as a material artifact by discussing the genre’s diverse practices of authorship, publication, and circulation. It uses a print culture methodology to address the following issues: Who published the slave narrative? What did its original editions look like? How widely was it circulated? In what forms was it distributed? The perspectival shift from literary text to material object results in a richer understanding of the historical conditions under which the slave narrative was produced and provides new insights into the genre’s discursive meanings. By reframing the slave narrative as a material text, the article shows how the slave narrative’s discursive meanings are not only embedded in but also enlarged by the material practices of its publication and circulation
Aesthetics · Art · Artifact (error) · Cognitive reframing · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Narrative criticism · Narrative history · Narrative network · Object (grammar) · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |