Rabszolga-elbeszélés, műfajság és a posztmodern rabszolgaregény Charles Johnson Oxherding Tale (1982) és Edward P. Jones The Known World (2003) című neorabszolga-elbeszélésének elemzése Abstract My discussion seeks to explore both what the American slave narrative is and what the American slave narrative does: how its taxonomic markers are mapped out by American criticism, and how narratives about slaverythe slave narratives, in particularmorph into neo-slave narratives. Prompted by recent

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... ibutions to the theorizing of genre, I am interested in how innovative approaches to genre can help explore neo-slave narratives. Along these lines, I look at the narrative strategy in two contemporary African American novels, Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale (1982) and Edward P. Jones's The Known World (2003) and read them as neo-slave narratives, representing two distinctive post-civil-rights approaches to fictional enactments of slavery. For all their difference, the two neoslave novels are similar in their tendency to manifest the "eruption of genre" by playing out their distinctive textual processes and challenging their own boundaries, thus highlighting the problem of referentiality as an extremely vulnerable textual and cognitive process.