1.   Like the black woman in a slave narrative, the Chicana remains here an abiding if sometimes invisible medium of exchange.

2.   Available for online perusal are slave narratives, first-person narratives and a large block of Southern literature.

3.   His wry recastings of abolitionist slave narratives are based on his own experiences.

4.   It includes dramatized scenes from the book, bits and pieces of six different stage adaptations, critical commentaries, minstrel show variations and excerpts from slave narratives.

5.   The stories Ms. Walker creates derive from African-American history, particularly autobiographical, antebellum slave narratives.

6.   There are no equivalents to the slave narratives or to the plantation records of the Americas, or if there are no one has brought them to light.

7.   Yellin, best known for her editions of the slave narrative of Harriet Jacobs, is fascinated by the Crafts book, but reserves judgment.