Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Timeline
- Introduction
- 1 Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination
- 2 U.S. Antislavery Tracts and the Literary Imagination
- 3 White Slaves in the Late-Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Imagination
- 4 Slave Narratives as Literature
- 5 Slavery and the Emergence of the African American Novel
- 6 Proslavery Fiction
- 7 The Poetry of Slavery
- 8 Reading Slavery and “Classic” American Literature
- 9 Slavery’s Performance-Texts
- 10 The Music and the Musical Inheritance of Slavery
- 11 U.S. Slave Revolutions in Atlantic World Literature
- 12 Slavery and American Literature 1900–1945
- 13 Moving Pictures: Spectacles of Enslavement in American Cinema
- 14 Slavery and Historical Memory in Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction
- 15 Beyond the Borders of the Neo-Slave Narrative
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
13 - Moving Pictures: Spectacles of Enslavement in American Cinema
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Timeline
- Introduction
- 1 Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination
- 2 U.S. Antislavery Tracts and the Literary Imagination
- 3 White Slaves in the Late-Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Imagination
- 4 Slave Narratives as Literature
- 5 Slavery and the Emergence of the African American Novel
- 6 Proslavery Fiction
- 7 The Poetry of Slavery
- 8 Reading Slavery and “Classic” American Literature
- 9 Slavery’s Performance-Texts
- 10 The Music and the Musical Inheritance of Slavery
- 11 U.S. Slave Revolutions in Atlantic World Literature
- 12 Slavery and American Literature 1900–1945
- 13 Moving Pictures: Spectacles of Enslavement in American Cinema
- 14 Slavery and Historical Memory in Late-Twentieth-Century Fiction
- 15 Beyond the Borders of the Neo-Slave Narrative
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature , pp. 219 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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