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Novel bondage : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America /

Reworking classic literary texts to explore the unconventional union of slave-marriage.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chakkalakal, Tess
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the slave-marriage plot
  • Between fiction and experience: William Wells Brown's Clotel
  • Dred and the freedom of marriage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's fiction of law
  • Free, black, and married: Frank J. Webb's the Garies and their friends
  • "A legally unmarried race": Frances Harper's marital mission
  • Wedded to race: Charles Chesnutt's stories of the color line
  • Conclusion: reading Hannah Crafts in the twenty-first century.