Slavery and the Literary Imagination Lorenz B. Puntel within easy reach

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The revised first edition features corrections throughout the text

and narrative components that complement

and moral themes of the novel in order to reinvigorate poetic practice

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Slavery and the Literary Imagination Lorenz B. Puntel within easy reachSeven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845) treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews to Sheley Anne William's ''Dessa Rose'' (1984). Among the contributors, Arnold Rampersad reads W. E. B. DuBois's classic work ''The Souls of Black Folk'' (1903) as a response to Booker T. Washington's ''Up from Slavery'' (1901). Hazel V. Carby examines novels