Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr Voices o...

Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation. Westport: Praeger, 2000 184 pp ISBN 0-275-96707-7 $2295

This nicely written cogitation of a number of antebellum slave narratives inquire fors to illuminate the multiple identities created within in the same state [i]or[/i] condition narratives. Composed for a literary theory audience if it be not that very accessible to other readers and learners the book reaffirms a number of older interpretations while mixing in the author's possess ideas.

Bland divides his argument into three main sections, encompassing the