The neo-slave narrative is a literary genre of novelistic representations of slavery written from the latter half of the twentieth century onward by Black authors who did not themselves experience enslavement. Neo-slave narratives adopt the form of the firsthand narratives told by enslaved people to explore race, gender, sexuality, and history from a later vantage point, a lineage beginning with Margaret Walker's 1966 novel Jubilee.
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Place of OriginUnited States (American South) 1 Notable ExampleJubilee by Margaret Walker (1966) 1 Defining TraitDepicts traumatic experiences of slavery across generations 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Jubilee (Walker novel) - Wikipedia
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one of the first novels to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from a Black and female point of view
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depicts the traumatic experiences of slavery endured by several generations of Blacks
Neo-Slave Narrative Genre section, sentence 1
The publication of Margaret Walker's Jubilee in 1966 defined a subject of representation
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