| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery. By Arlene R. Keizer. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi, 200 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-4095-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-8904-0.)

Arlene R. Keizer, in Black Subjects, joins a number of recent critics in examining what Ashraf Rushdy has referred to as neo—slave narratives. These are contemporary works of fiction, usually in the form of historical novels, that tell stories of slavery. What distinguishes Keizer's analysis is her interest in both Caribbean and African American writers and her particular approach to narrative and theory. On the latter point, she is not so much interested in using a theory to read the literature as in identifying the theories implicit in the writings. Given the concern of each work, she considers its view of identity as it is shaped by the historical experience of slavery; the theories are those focusing on subjectivity.

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