It was the first slave narrative by an African American woman, and also one of the longest and most detailed accounts of slavery at the time of its publication
This paper focuses on slave narratives, a powerful stream within American literature, which has been receiving growing attention and acknowledgement fromÂ
The engendering impulse of African American literature is resistance to human tyranny the right of African Americans to armed resistance to slavery wasÂ
American colonies Slaves developed their own traditions, culture and literature, and gave birth to a new genre that is Slave Narratives
of speculative fiction According to the emerging critical consensus, recent novels of slavery by African American writers exemplify an
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moment in African-American literature and neo-slave narratives The major literary trends and movements as well as their main and influential representatives