Sentences with phrase «best slave narratives»

And I think this novel shows slavery in a way one doesn't get from history books: it has the immediacy of some of the best slave narratives, with a much broader view of the whole than any one slave's experience.

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BEST NARRATIVE FILM *** 12 Years a Slave *** American Hustle Gravity Inside Llewyn Davis The Wolf of Wall Street

Also among the 9 Oscar nominees for best picture Thursday: the old - age love story «Amour»; the Iran hostage thriller «Argo»; the independent hit «Beasts of the Southern Wild»; the slave - revenge narrative «Django Unchained»; the musical «Les Miserables»; the shipwreck story «Life of Pi»; the lost - souls romance «Silver Linings Playbook»; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle «Zero Dark Thirty.»

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.