Re-forming the past: history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative

Introduction

The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart

The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred

Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse

Re-forming Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage

Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.