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Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creating.

Publication: Civil War History
Publication Date: 01-SEP-02 		Format: Online - approximately 537 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
By Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. 208. Cloth $67.00; paper $22.95.)

As the title suggests, Sterling Bland Jr.'s analysis of slave narratives deals mainly with their literary qualities--"the voice" of the narrator (5), the rhetorical creation of "identity" (xiv), and the "literary recitation" of the story (162). In these, the author's stated goals, there is much that is commendable, especially in the in-depth examinations of Frederick Douglass's famous Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,...

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