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Unlike 19th century slave narratives, many recent novel-like texts about slavery deploy ironic narrative strategies, innovative structural features, and playful cruelty. This study analyzes the postmodern aesthetics common to seven tales of slavery from the United States, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Cuba, abd Colombia from authors including Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet, Toni Morrison, and Charles Johnson.Cox, Timothy J. is the author of 'Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson' with ISBN 9780815338536 and ISBN 0815338538.
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