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EN 441 The Slave Narrative

Students in this course read major slave and neo-slave narratives of the 19th and 20th centuries and examine these works from the dual perspectives of social testimony and literary phenomena. Some of the issues addressed include the genre’s evolving response to the conditions of slavery and to the Abolitionist movement, the relation of the slave narratives to the rise of realism in American fiction, and the influence of the slave narrative’s form on the evolution of African American fiction.