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The article presents an essay on how the enslaved Africans' lives have been inscribed in novels, also described as "neo-slave narratives," by two Francophone authors, Patrick Chamoiseau in "L'esclave vieil homme et le molosse," and André Schwarz-Bart in "La Mulâtresse Solitude." Topics include how Chamoiseau and Schwarz- Bart "write into" the "time-lags" they know exist in the writing of the history of the enslaved Africans.

The article presents an essay on restored literary behaviors of neo-slave narratives. Topics include troubling the ethics of witnessing in the excessive present, the notion of texts making demands on their own readers is a signal attribute of the nineteenth-century slave narrative, and while the specific techniques used by authors of slave narratives vary too much to suggest uniformity in mode of appeal, it is clear that slave narratives were aimed towards abolition.

The article focuses on the power of the neo-slave narrative genre. Topics include the neo-slave narrative genre is particularly relevant to Black British writing since most received historical accounts have downplayed, or completely ignored, Great Britain's role as a slaving nation and slavery has become a counter-history of modernity, a history that has been erased from the European Enlightenment teleological narrative of rationality and progress.

This essay rereads the slave narrative via "The History of Mary Prince," by James Albert Ukasaw Gronniosaw. It studies the presence of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish abolitionist activist, in the novel. It proposes a reading of the story in which the formal stasis of slave narrative connotes an alternative definition as civil strife. It examines the static repetition, prolixities and opaque performance in the story.

The article examines the ways in which American social reformer Federick Douglass' "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" has been and continued to be introduced in relation to his latter autobiographies. It discusses his life-writings and the complexities of their publication history which indicate the difficulty of African American, ex-slave life-writing. "Narrative" is said to be the classic text at the core of the slave narrative genre.

The article offers information about "Theresa-A Haytien Tale." It states that the novel demonstrate the extent to which the notion of mobility infused the African American consciousness in the mid-nineteenth century and in ways distinct from even in opposition to the slave narrative. It mentions that the novel stresses the fact that the ability to move through space, but also among different classes and races which are important aspect of freedom.

An essay is presented regarding the characteristics of some Muslim literary contributions that were excluded in the African American literature. It explores the narrative-formed literary works published in the book "African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook," by Allan D. Austin. Moreover, it notes that slave narratives and noble savages are some of the characteristics of Muslims that undermines the ethnicity of Africa.

This article comments on the dialect and identity of the autobiography and slave narratives of Harriet Jacob. Literary critics and historians stress the failure of Jacob in representing the transcription of the dialects in the speech of slaves and the non-slaves. Critics emphasized the contrasting dialects used by Jacob that appears in the narratives between slaves. Furthermore, Jacob's autobiographical narratives was wrote in Standard English.