Slavery in African American Literature: Three Centuries Observed
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.2.63-78Keywords:
slave narrative, neo-slave narrative, 12 Years a Slave, Beloved, The Underground RailroadAbstract
This work intends to follow the development of the slave narratives and neo-slave narratives, contemplating three works of these genres, one of each century, being 12 Years of Slavery (1853), by Solomon Northup; Beloved (1987), by Toni Morrison; and The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead (2017). These narratives have, as background, the lives of slaves and their journeys in search of freedom and humanity, been produced in the time of the slave system or later. We are based on authors such as Gates Jr. and McKay (2004) and Dubey (2010), as well as in Morrison’s own essay (1988) and na interview with Whitehead for The Guardian (2017).
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