Angelyn Mitchell

The Freedom to Remember

Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. Books studied include ""Kindred"", ""Dessa Rose"" and ""Beloved"". These works create a space to problematize the slavery/freedom dichotomy from which contemporay black women have a ""safe"" vantage point.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780813530697
• ISBN-10: 0813530695
• Artikelnr.: 21248326

Autorenporträt

Angelyn Mitchell is an associate professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the editor of Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present.

Inhaltsangabe

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