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The role of the engaging narrator in four nineteenth-century American slave narratives.

机译：这位引人入胜的叙述者在19世纪四个美国奴隶叙事中的角色。

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"The Role of the Engaging Narrator in Four 19th-Century American Slave Narratives" establishes the importance of societal, political, and racial pressures upon the autobiographical narratives of four prominent African-American writers: Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Wilson, and Harriet Jacobs. This particular study is unique in the discussion of slave narratives for its contention that each author employs the rhetorical device of the "engaging narrator"--a narrative voice that intervenes into the text and addresses the reader or readers directly. This narrative voice is the mouthpiece of the author; it "ruptures" the literary conventions anticipated by the middle-class, white reading audience, and allows the socially conscious autobiographical voice of the fugitive slave to speak plainly and simply about the horrors of slavery and the need to change the social reality of American society.;Chapter one establishes the social, historical, and literary framework for the development of the slave narrative. The first chapter discusses the critical reputation of the slave narrative and contextualizes it as a literary invocation of an autobiographical form.;In chapter two, I discuss the subtle and exploratory use of the engaging narrator by ex-slave and abolitionist speaker, Frederick Douglass. Douglass also invokes the conventions of the picaresque novel and then dismantles them as he demonstrates that the African-American ex-slave is not a wandering, amoral hero, but a serious, hard-working American individual.;William Wells Brown's novel, Clotel, Or the President's Daughter, (1853) is the focus of chapter three. Brown's text cuts across class boundaries in America, and thus, is one of the first truly democratic examples of American fiction published in the United States.;The focus of chapter four is Harriet Wilson's novel Our Nig (1859). Through the rhetorical device of the engaging narrator, Wilson blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, collapsing the discursive fields of self and society, as she stands both inside and outside the society she intends to critique.;Chapter five takes Harriet Jacobs's famous narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself (1861) as its subject. Jacobs's narrative is the most sophisticated and daring of the four narratives considered in this study because of her advanced thinking about the politics of gender and race. Jacobs articulates that American society of the l9th-century has several layers of morality that are maintained based on the oppression and subjugation of the black woman.;The Afterword reviews the historical, political and social realities of the mid-19th-century as portrayed in the four narratives. It uses the theories of new historicism and the process of novelization to demonstrate that a revision of history from the perspective of the slave narrative will lead to a clearer and more accurate understanding of American society under the influence of slavery.
机译：“参与叙事者在19世纪四个美国奴隶叙事中的作用”确立了社会，政治和种族压力对四位非裔美国人的自传叙事的重要性：弗雷德里克·道格拉斯，威廉·威尔斯·布朗，哈丽特·威尔逊和哈丽雅各布斯。这项特殊的研究在对奴隶叙事的讨论中是独一无二的，因为它的论点是每位作者都采用“参与叙事者”的修辞手法-一种介入文本的叙事声音并直接向读者或读者讲话。这种叙事的声音是作者的喉舌。它“破坏”了中产阶级，白人阅读人群所期望的文学习俗，并允许逃亡奴隶的具有社会意识的自传声音简单而简单地谈论奴隶制的恐怖以及改变美国社会社会现实的必要性第一章为奴隶叙事的发展建立了社会，历史和文学框架。第一章讨论奴隶叙事的批判声望，并将其作为自传形式的文学援引进行情境化。第二章，我讨论前奴隶制和废奴主义者演讲人弗雷德里克·道格拉斯对引人入胜的叙述者的微妙和探索性使用。道格拉斯（Douglass）还引用了这部野兽小说的惯例，然后取消了这些惯例，因为他证明了非裔美国人的前奴隶不是一个徘徊，不道德的英雄，而是一个认真勤奋的美国个人。威廉·威尔斯·布朗（William Wells Brown）的小说《克洛特》（Clotel）或《总统的女儿》（President's Daughter，1853年）是第三章的重点。布朗的著作跨越了美国的阶级界限，因此是在美国出版的美国小说中第一个真正民主的例子之一。第四章的重点是哈里埃特·威尔逊的小说《我们的黑人》（Our859）。威尔逊通过引人入胜的叙事者的修辞手法，模糊了自传与小说之间的界线，使自我和社会的话语领域陷于瘫痪，因为她既站在社会的内外，也打算进行批评。第五章采用哈丽埃特·雅各布斯的著名叙事，自己写的《奴隶女孩生活中的事件》（1861年）。雅各布斯的叙事是本研究中考虑的四种叙事中最复杂，最大胆的故事，因为她对性别和种族政治的高级思考。雅各布斯阐明了十九世纪的美国社会在黑人妇女的压迫和征服的基础上保持了几层道德观。《后记》回顾了19世纪中期的历史，政治和社会现实。四个叙述。它使用新历史主义的理论和新颖化的过程来证明，从奴隶叙事的角度对历史进行修订将在奴隶制的影响下导致对美国社会的更清晰，更准确的理解。

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  • 作者

    Scott, Lesley Thompson.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of Tulsa.;

  • 授予单位 The University of Tulsa.;
  • 学科 History Black.;History United States.;Literature American.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1995
  • 页码 197 p.
  • 总页数 197
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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