The Freedom to Remember : Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Angelyn, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women and literature > United States > 20th century.
Slavery in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Memory in literature.
American fiction > Women authors > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African American women in literature.
Women and literature.
American fiction > Women authors.
American fiction > African American authors.
American fiction.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Narration.
Memoire dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Noires americaines > Vie intellectuelle.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself: the ur-narrative of black womanhood
  • Not enough of the past: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred
  • History, agency, and subjectivity in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
  • The metaphysics of black female identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • J. California Cooper's family: of (absent?) mothers, (motherless?) daughters, and (interracial?) relations
  • The economies of bondage and freedom in Lorene Cary's The price of a child.

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