Horenko I. The genre memory and the narrative functions of slave narratives in African-American literary discourse of the second half of XX century (based on novels "Flight to Canada" by Ishmael Reed and "Known World" by Edward Jones)

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Thesis for the degree of Candidate of Sciences (CSc)

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0415U006553

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  • 10.01.06 - Теорія літератури

18-11-2015

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Д 26.133.03

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University

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Since the beginning of the formation of African-American literature up to the postmodern period, the experience of slavery has been defined to its thematic and artistic and stylistic dimensions. Black artists have collectivized individual traumatic experiences associated with their attempts to verbalize the full extent of slavery and to comprehend the tragic events surrounding this institution, and then have created their own meanings, often different from the official version of historical enslavement. Thus the narrative stories about slaves and slavery constitute a special genre of African-American literature.

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