Rushdy's interpretation is noteworthy for the additional lines of
inquiry it suggests, primarily how the neo-slave narrative might be
considered in relation to other literary forms of the 1970's and
1980's...--The New England Quarterly
"Recommended for upper-division undergraduates through
faculty."--Choice
"Rushdy's book tells us a great deal not just about the four novels
he reads closely, but also about American conceptions of slavery
and race in the second half og the twentieth century; we walk away
from Neo-slave Narratives with a multilayered sense of what Rushdy
calls the 'social logic' of the form, a logic which demonstrates
that 'form is not extrinsic to historical understanding but rather
constructive of it.'In short, Rushdy approaches his texts
as complex objects circulating in many intersecting exchanges and
listens carefully for the whistling and humming around him." Theory
and Cultural Studies
"An informative, insightful book, exemplary in its eclectic
combination of approaches, including close reading and formal
analysis, historical and biographical reportage, philosophical
enlightenment, and cultural and sociopolitical critique."
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