Editing Slave narrative (section)

==Neo-slave narratives==
A neo-slave narrative — a term coined by [[Ishmael Reed]] while working on his 1976 novel [[Flight to Canada (novel)|Flight to Canada]] and used by him in a 1984 interview<ref>[http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/a-conversation-with-ishmael-reed-by-reginald-martin/ "A Conversation with Ishmael Reed By Reginald Martin"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181213124435/http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/a-conversation-with-ishmael-reed-by-reginald-martin/|date=2018-12-13}} (interview conducted July 1–7, 1983, in Emeryville, California), ''The Review of Contemporary Fiction'', Summer 1984, Vol. 4.2. At Dalkey Archive Press.</ref> — is a modern fictional work set in the slavery era by contemporary authors or substantially concerned with depicting the experience or the effects of enslavement in the New World.<ref>Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, "Neo-slave narrative", in William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster & Trudier Harris (eds), ''Oxford Companion to African American Literature'', New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 533–535.</ref> The works are largely classified as [[novel]]s, but may pertain to poetical works as well. The renaissance of the postmodern slave narratives in the 20th century was a means to deal retrospectively with slavery, and to give a fictional account of historical facts from the first-person perspective.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rushdy|first1=Ashraf H.A.|title=Neo-slave narratives: studies in the social logic of a literary form|date=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York [u.a.]|isbn=978-0195125337}}</ref>

Examples include:
* [[Madison Smartt Bell]], ''All Souls' Rising'' (1995), first of trilogy about the [[Haitian Revolution]]
* [[David Bradley (novelist)|David Bradley]], ''[[The Chaneysville Incident]]'' (1981)
* [[Octavia E. Butler]], ''[[Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]'' (1979)
* [[Noni Carter]], ''Good Fortune'' (2010), young adult novel
* [[David Anthony Durham]], ''[[Walk Through Darkness]]'' (2002)
* [[Ernest J. Gaines]], ''[[The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman]]'' (1971)
* [[Alex Haley]], ''[[Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]'' (1976)<ref name="Love">{{cite news |last1=Love |first1=David |title=Do Slave Narratives Such as 'Roots' Have a Role in Today's Conversations? |journal=Atlanta Black Star |date=May 31, 2016 |url=https://atlantablackstar.com/2016/05/31/do-slave-narratives-such-as-roots-have-a-role-in-todays-conversations/ |access-date=18 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Marie-Elena John]], ''[[Unburnable]]'' (2006)
* [[Edward P. Jones]], ''[[The Known World]]'' (2003)
* [[Toni Morrison]], ''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' (1987)
* [[William Styron]], ''[[Confessions of Nat Turner]]'' (1967)
* [[Natasha Trethewey]], ''Native Guard'' (2006)
* [[Margaret Walker]], ''[[Jubilee (novel)|Jubilee]]'' (1966)
* [[Sherley Anne Williams]], ''[[Dessa Rose]]'' (1986)
* [[Évelyne Trouillot]], ''The Infamous Rosalie'' (2003)
* [[Manu Herbstein]], ''[[Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade]]'' (2001)
* [[Manu Herbstein]], ''Brave Music of a Distant Drum'' (2011)
* [[Colson Whitehead]], ''[[The Underground Railroad (novel)|The Underground Railroad]]'' (2016)