RE-FORMING THE PAST
Spaulding, A Timothy![RE-FORMING THE PAST](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/377/37738834/CHSBZCOP0337738834.jpg)
The slave experience was a defining one in American history, and not surprisingly, has been a significant and powerful trope in African American literature. In Re-Forming the Past, A. Timothy Spaulding examines contemporary revisions of slave narratives that use elements of the fantastic to redefine the historical and literary constructions of American slavery. In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, postmo...