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Topic: RSS FeedVoices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation. (Reviews). (book review)
Biography, June, 2001 by Hodges, Graham Russell
Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr. Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation. Westport: Praeger, 2000. 184 pp. ISBN 0-275-96707-7, $22.95.
This nicely written study of a number of antebellum slave narratives seeks to illuminate the multiple identities created within such narratives. Composed for a literary theory audience but very accessible to other readers and students, the book reaffirms a number of older interpretations while mixing in the author's own ideas.
Bland divides his argument into three main sections, encompassing the literary and cultural landscape, the slaves' response, and an epilogue. The first section includes an illuminating discussion of "masking" in slave narratives, by which bond people...
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