Frances Smith Foster

'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part

Love and Marriage in African America

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Produktbeschreibung

Frances Smith Foster offers a groundbreaking new portrait of early African American marriage, upending the conventional wisdom that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, or that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 317g
• ISBN-13: 9780199389704
• ISBN-10: 0199389705
• Artikelnr.: 47870837

Autorenporträt

Frances Smith Foster is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies (Emeritus) at Emory University. Her previous books include Written By Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 (Indiana UP, 1993), Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Ante-Bellum Slave Narrative (Greenwood, 1979), and several edited collections. Her VSI to African American Literature is forthcoming.

Inhaltsangabe

* One: Adam and Eve
Antony and Isabella * Two: Terms of Endearment * Three: Practical Thoughts
Divine Mandates
and the Afro-Protestant Press * Four: Rights and Rituals * Five: Myths
Memory
and Self-Realization * Six: Getting Stories Straight
Keeping Them Real * Seven: Alchemy of Personal Politics * Eight: Me
Mende
and Sankofa: An Epilogue