Abstract-Slavery's legacy haunts present-day America, and its enduring trauma is reflected in the writing of "neo-slave narratives," or contemporary novels about slavery. The manipulation of language serves different ends in the neo-slave narrative than it does in its precursor, but by exploring the breakdown of mind/body dualism, challenging the hierarchy of oral and print cultures, and interrogating the slave’s act of refusal across both works, we make visible the ways that neo-slave narratives build upon antebellum slave narratives and ultimately position us to find generative uses for our traumatic past. This essay argues that neo-slave narratives, as part of the continuum of slave narratives, attempt to resolve or deconstruct the dualistic myths of Western epistemology and through interaction with speculative tropes, offer a vehicle for the creation of new meaning and healing for the postmodern African American subject. Accordingly, the agency of contemporary neo-slave writers serves as a foil to the problematized authority granted to our literary foremothers, and in many ways redeems the emancipatory potential of the written word. Ultimately, an analysis of Jacobs’s work through the lens of book history and its power to shape cultural formation will suggest a critical imperative for the contemporary neo-slave narrative genre. This article will examine the tension between oral culture and print culture in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. While literacy may have signified the humanity of male slaves in the antebellum South (at least in their own view), the English language and American print culture did not similarly empower female slaves towards positive subject-formation through discourse. Keywords: slave narrative, postmodern slave narrative, racial stereotypes, cultural appropriation, slavery, historical revisionism, master text. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915), Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind (1939), Haile Gerima's Sankofa (1993), Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012), and Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) – and classifies Gerima's and McQueen's films as representatives of a new trend of transferring slave narratives to the big screen. Finally, it reviews the cinematic representation of slavery and racial stereotypes through several representative slavery films – D.W. Highlighting the correlation between the novels' postmodern narrative strategies and their attempt to engage in historical revisionism and convey the authentic reality of the slave experience, it argues that both Williams and Butler successfully de/re-construct and re-write/right the dominant narrative of African American history by depicting a black woman's first-hand experience of the past and inscribing the physical wounds of slavery into the present. Using William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) as the paradigmatic text, which initiated a critical debate over its authenticity, as well as subsequent intertextual deconstructions of its historical bigotry, the paper juxtaposes Styron's text to two postmodern neo-slave narratives – Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose (1986) and Octavia E. It pays special attention to the emergence of this genre as a continuation of nineteenth-century slave narratives and a response to pro-slavery writing, which appropriated African American history to encourage prejudice, stereotyping, and cultural misrepresentation. If you are an occasional reader of his work, then we urge you to grab a copy asap.This paper traces the evolution of the postmodern slave narrative. To cut the story short, if you are a fan of great fiction, we highly recommend you bag this novel without wasting a bit of moment. No matter what you like in fiction and novels, this beautiful novel knows how to generates interest for readers and fall them in love. Once someone starts reading the novel, it is very hard to leave it without finishing, as its, each page keeps users on the edge of the seat. Its story entertains readers of all ages and keeps them engage with unexpected twists and turns. The characters of the novel are chosen very beautifully and executed in a tremendous way. This novel reflects the great writing skills of the author. This author has a very clear idea of how to write a great story and engage the reader in a great environment. No one can beat the excellent ability of the author’s writing, whenever there is a talk about great novel writing. Butler” is the author of this beautiful novel. Kindred is a beautiful novel with a great story and impressive moral and social lessons for readers of all ages. ” Kindred” is a beautiful and heart-wrenching novel that you can download in PDF or ePub format.
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