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Encyclopedia of Slavery and Freedom in American Literature
UPDATED LIST
(Deadline 3/10/09)
| Location: | United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-03-10 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-12-20 |
| Announcement ID: |
165938 |
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Contributors sought for a work tentatively entitled The Encyclopedia of Slavery and Freedom in American Literature. This book is scheduled to be published by Facts on File in 2010.
Project Description
The purpose of this project is to provide a comprehensive and accessible catalog on the subject of slavery in American literature. It will identify the most important and influential literary works, authors, abolitionists and historical figures, and it will define and explain various terminologies and subjects related to American slavery in American literature.
The primary markets for this encyclopedia will be high schools, colleges, and special libraries. It will be written in a manner that is comprehensible to the constituents of each market.
For the first phase of this project, I am seeking submissions in the following areas: Slave Narratives/Biographies, Works of Fiction, Drama, and Concepts/History/Persons.
The deadline for submitting entries for the updated list 3/10/09.
A DETAILED LIST OF THESE ENTRIES APPEARS BELOW
If you would like to contribute, please send an email to trobinso@bates.edu. Use Encyclopedia of Slavery as your subject heading:
Within the message, list the entries that you would like to write and briefly describe your qualifications and research areas.
Dr. Timothy Mark Robinson
Bates College
205 Pettigrew Hall
Lewiston, Maine 04240
Tel. 207.786.6314
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SLAVERY &
FREEDOM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Word Count/Length of Entry
Short entry (S) = approx. 500 words
Medium entry (M) =1000-1200 words
Long entry (L) =1500-2000 words
PRELIMINARY LIST OF WRITERS & WORKS TO BE
COVERED
Slave Narratives/Biographies:
Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-four Years a Slave…(M)
A Slave’s Adventures toward Freedom: Not Fiction, but the True Story of a Struggle (Peter Bruner) (S)
Memories of Childhood’s Slave Days (Annie L. Burton) (S)
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom (Lucy Delaney) (M)
Narrative of Briton Hammon (S)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) (L)
Fugitive Blacksmith (James W.C. Pennington) (S)
The Interesting Narrative of Venture Smith (M)
Confessions of Nat Turner (L)
Fiction:
Francis Colburn Adams: Our World, or, The Slaveholder’s Daughter (M)
Gustave de Beaumont: Marie, or Slavery in the United States (M)
Aphra Behn: Orinooko (L)
Harriet Hamline Bigelow: The Curse Entailed (M)
Desmos. Old Toney and His Master, or, The Abolitionist and the Land Pirate (S)
Frederick Douglass: The Heroic Slave (M)
Joel Chandler Harris: Uncle Remus stories
Free Joe (M)
Daddy Jake the Runaway (M)
Manu Herbstein: Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (S)
Lawrence Hill: The Book of Negroes (S)
Any Known Blood (M)
Marie-Elana John: Unburnable (M)
Herman Melville:
Moby Dick (M)
Mary Hayden Green Pike: Ida May (S)
Smith H. Platt: The Martyrs and the Fugitive (S)
John Stearns: Alluthinai, a Tale of Slavery (S)
Caroline Rush: The North and South, or, Slavery and Its Contrasts: A Tale of Real Life (S)
Harriet Spofford: Escape to Freedom (M)
Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Old Town Folks (M)
“The Two Altars, or Two Pictures in One” (M)
William Styron: The Confessions of Nat Turner (L)
Drama:
The Fugitives [anonymous] (S)
The Kidnapped Clergyman [anonymous] (S)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin—George Aiken (M)
The Stars and Stripes—Lydia Maria Child (M)
Dessalines—William E. Easton (M)
The Reverend Griffith Davenport—James A. Herne (S)
Peculiar Sam; or, The Underground Railroad—Pauline Hopkins (S)
The Guerrillas—James D. McCabe (S)
The Christian Slave—Harriet Beecher Stowe (S)
Glossary of Concepts/History/Persons:
Abolition Movement (including discussion of the role of women and the role of religious groups as authors and audience of its literature) (L)
Toussaint L’ Overture (S)
The Middle Passage (L)
Fugitive Slave Act (S)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (S)
Missouri Compromise (S)
"One drop" law (S)
Dred Scott (S)
"Tragic mulatto" (S)
Sharecropping (S)
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Dr. Timothy Mark Robinson
Bates College
205 Pettigrew Hall
Lewiston, Maine 04240
Tel. 207.786.6314
Email: trobinso@bates.edu
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