“We the human Family“: Revisions of American National History in Contemporary Slave Narratives
The paper discusses two contemporary slave narratives, Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) and J. California Cooper’s Family (1991) in order to demonstrate how African American women writers revision American past. More specifically, the paper demonstrates how both Butler and Cooper challenge the const...
Main Author: | Karla Kovalová |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Pardubice
2008-12-01
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Series: | American and British Studies Annual |
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Online Access: | https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2126 |
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