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Tytuł: The 'Color-Line' Criticism: Literary Fiction, Historical Facts, and the Critical Controversies about William Styron’s "The Confessions of Nat Turner"
Autorzy: Kamionowski, Jerzy
Słowa kluczowe: American history
color line
criticism
historical facts
historical novel
literary fiction
race
slavery
Data wydania: 2014
Data dodania: 30-lip-2015
Wydawca: The University of Bialystok
Źródło: Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 7 (4/2014), pp. 13-22
Abstrakt: This article analyses critical responses to William Styron’s "The Confessions of Nat Turner", claiming that the reception of the novel was strongly determined by the question of race and the different perception-and-interpretation of a “common” history by black and white Americans. I demonstrate that the polemics about Styron’s novel resulted not only from an entirely different understanding by white and black critics of the question as to what literature is essentially and what social role it has to perform, but also from the incompatible implementation of historiography, in the realm of which both sides placed the novel. I argue that, as a result, the critical controversies about "The Confessions" were drawn along the so-called “color line”, a category which traditionally defined Americans according to their race.
Afiliacja: University of Bialystok
Nota biograficzna: Jerzy Kamionowski is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Bialystok, Poland. He is the author of two books: "Głosy z “dzikiej strefy” (Voices from the “wild zone”) (2011) on the poetry of Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and Audre Lorde, and" New Wine in Old Bottles". "Angela Carter’s Fiction" (2000). He has published articles on women and African American writers and postmodernist novelists. He has also co-edited three volumes of critical essays on American women poets: "Piękniejszy dom od Prozy" (A Fairer House than Prose) (2005), "O wiele więcej Okien" (More numerous of Windows) (2008), and "Drzwi szerzej Otworzyć" (Superior – for Doors) (2011).
E-mail: kamion1@gazeta.pl
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11320/3111
DOI: 10.15290/cr.2014.07.4.02
ISSN: 2300-6250
Typ Dokumentu: Article
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Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, 2014, Issue 7

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