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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792338303321

Autore

Li Stephanie <1977->

Titolo

Something akin to freedom [[electronic resource] ] : the choice of bondage in narratives by African American women / / Stephanie Li

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4384-2972-X

1-4416-4095-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9287/08996073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Slave narratives - United States - History and criticism

African American women in literature

Slavery in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intra-independence: reconceptualizing freedom and resistance to bondage -- Choosing the bondage of domesticity and White womanhood in The bondwoman's narrative -- Voluntary enslavement and discursive violence : placage and Louisa Picquet -- The bondage of memory in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Coda: From bondage to war: the lives of contemporary Black women in the novels of Toni Morrison.