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Article: Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and Ellen Craft. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- African American Review
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- September 22, 2002
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Charles J. Heglar. Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and Ellen Craft. Westport: Greenwood P, 2001. 184 pp. $59.00.
It is high time that someone directly challenged us to rethink our assumptions about slave narratives. Early studies such as those by Marion Starling, Phyllis Klotman, and Charles Nichols were clear about the diversity and complexities of this genre. However, over the years, there has been an increasing tendency to present one or two authors of mid-nineteenth-century texts as representative of (or, even worse, as the benchmark for the more than 6,000 autobiographical writings published over at least two ...