ISBN:
9789027267108
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9027267103
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Series Statement:
Studies in narrative v. 22
Parallel Title:
Print version Clifton, Jonathan (Lecturer in business communication), author Master narratives, identities, and the stories of former slaves
DDC:
306.362092
Keywords:
Slave narratives United States
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Slaves Social conditions
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19th century
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United States
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United States
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Slaves Social conditions 19th century
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Slave narratives
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Slave narratives
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Slaves Social conditions 19th century
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Slaves ; Social conditions
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General
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Slave narratives
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United States
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Electronic books
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Erlebnisbericht
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"This book ... analyzes the audio-recordings of the narratives of former slaves from the American South which are now publicly available on the Library of Congress website: Voices from the days of slavery. More specifically, this book analyses the identity work of these former slaves and considers how these identities are related to master narratives. The novelty of this book is that through using such a temporally diverse and relatively large corpus, we show how master narratives change according to both the zeitgeist of the here-and-now of the interview world and the historical period that is related in the there-and-then of the story world. Moreover, focusing on the active achievement of master narratives as socially-situated co-constructed discursive accomplishments we analyze how different, inherently unstable and even contradictory versions of master narratives are enacted."--Publisher's description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
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