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Brown's View Of Slavery As An Accepted Institution?

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Brown uses newspapers and familiar texts to show the ubiquity of the institution of slavery and the view of the American people of slavery as an accepted institution. When addressing this aspect of Brown's novel “Brown constructs a narrative space in which he shows readers that the ubiquitous discourses of slavery necessitate equally ubiquitous anti-slavery discourses.”(Ganster 9) Brown not only shows the accepted reality of slavery as an institution but also offers a subtle counter to this acceptance that can be seen when analyzing his work from the proper perspective. Brown acknowledges the power of discourse in the construction of reality. To this end brown includes them as a necessary component of the socio-political institution of slavery.
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