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UNINA9910457640903321 |
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Autore |
Chakkalakal Tess |
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Titolo |
Novel bondage [[electronic resource] ] : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America / / Tess Chakkalakal |
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Champaign, : University of Illinois Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-22389-9 |
9786613223890 |
0-252-09338-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (159 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery in literature |
Marriage in literature |
Slaves - United States - Social conditions |
African Americans in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Filling a long-standing gap in our knowledge about slave-marriage, 'Novel Bondage' unravels the interconnections between marriage, slavery, and freedom through renewed readings of canonical nineteenth-century novels and short stories by black and white authors. Tess Chakkalakal expertly mines antislavery and post-Civil War fiction to extract literary representations of slave-marriage, revealing how these texts and their public responses took aim not only at the horrors of slavery but also at the legal conventions of marriage. |
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