but may pertain to poetical works as well. The renaissance of the postmodern slave narratives in the 20th century was a means to deal retrospectively with slavery, and to give a fictional account of historical facts from the first-person perspective. Examples include: Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls' Rising (1995), first of trilogy about the Haitian Revolution David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident (1981) Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (1979) Noni Carter, Good Fortune (2010), young adult novel David Anthony Durham, Walk Through Darkness (2002) Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976) Marie-Elena John, Unburnable (2006) Edward P. Jones, The Known World (2003) Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) William Styron, Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard (2006) Margaret Walker, Jubilee (1966) Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose (1986) Évelyne Trouillot, The Infamous Rosalie (2003) Manu Herbstein, Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001) Manu Herbstein, Brave Music of a Distant Drum (2011) Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (2016) See also Literature African-American literature Caribbean literature Authors of slave narratives William J. Anderson Jared Maurice Arter Lewis Charlton Lucinda Davis Moses Grandy Lunsford Lane J. Vance Lewis Moses Roper Wallace Turnage John M. Washington Other Unchained Memories - HBO documentary with readings from slave narratives (2003) References External links "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936–1938", American Memory, Library of Congress. "North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920", Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina. "Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology" – WPA oral histories of former US slaves collected in the 1930s, American Studies, University of Virginia. eTexts – Oral histories of former US slaves collected in the 1930s by the Work Projects Administration hosted at Project Gutenberg. University of South Florida Libraries: Florida Slave Narratives Narratives of African-Americans who spent their childhood and teenage years as slaves. American literature Cultural history of the United States Oral history African-American cultural history Narrative Narrative Literary genres