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UNINA9910961650303321 |
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Autore |
Li Stephanie <1977-> |
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Titolo |
Something akin to freedom : the choice of bondage in narratives by African American women / / Stephanie Li |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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9781438429724 |
143842972X |
9781441640956 |
1441640959 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
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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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom. |
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