Novel Bondage : Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America /

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chakkalakal, Tess
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slavery in literature.
Marriage in literature.
African Americans in literature.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Esclaves > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Mariage dans la litterature.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
Slaves > United States > Social conditions.
United States.
Electronic resource.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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