The Slave in the Swamp : Disrupting the Plantation Narrative
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
ISBN-10
0415972167
ISBN-13
9780415972161
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 13th, 2004
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
531 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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The image of the runaway slave hiding out in the swamp exerted great power over the imagination of nineteenth century America. This book is a reappraisal of a subject that chimes with today's world.
In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring "bogey-man" whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps with its wild and threatening connotations, the runaway gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open rebellion. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the free slave in the swamp from its untouchable, abstract state to a form that could be possessed, understood, and controlled. Essentially, writers defending the institution would conjure forth the rebellious image in order to dispel it safely.
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