Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation (Paperback)

Preface Reading in the Breach The Call: The Literary and Cultural Landscape Let the World Dream Otherwise: The Literary Masks of Fugitive Slave Stories Dismantling the Master's House: The Cultural Context .and the Response: Speaking for Themselves "Behold a Man Transformed": Sacred Language and the Secular Self in Frederick Douglass's Narrative Authority, Power, and Determination of the Will: The Dilemma of Rhetorical Ownership in Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom and Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Ambiguity, Passing, and the Politics of Color: The Reconstruction of Race in William and Ellen Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Epilogue: Of Being and Nothingness: Caliban's Reprise References Index