{"product_id":"neoslave-narratives-studies-in-the-social-logic-of-a-literary-form-race-and-american-culture-9780195125337","title":"NeoSlave Narratives Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form Race and American Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. The text explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, and asks how African-American intellectuals made use of this form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRushdy's book tells us a great deal not just about the four novels he reads closely, but also about the American conceptions of slavery and race in the second half of 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 constitutive 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. * Eric Gardner, Theory and Cultural Studies *","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766854844759,"sku":"9780195125337","price":63.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195125337.jpg?v=1758711440","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/neoslave-narratives-studies-in-the-social-logic-of-a-literary-form-race-and-american-culture-9780195125337","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}