02881nam 2200733Ia 450 991096165030332120200520144314.09781438429724143842972X97814416409561441640959(CKB)2670000000016866(OCoLC)593295835(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574024(SSID)ssj0000343076(PQKBManifestationID)11247822(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343076(PQKBWorkID)10287868(PQKB)10961472(MdBmJHUP)muse1658(Au-PeEL)EBL3407163(CaPaEBR)ebr10574024(DE-B1597)683926(DE-B1597)9781438429724(MiAaPQ)EBC3407163(Perlego)2674722(EXLCZ)99267000000001686620090508d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSomething akin to freedom the choice of bondage in narratives by African American women /Stephanie Li1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20101 online resource (176 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781438429700 1438429703 9781438429717 1438429711 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismSlave narrativesUnited StatesHistory and criticismAfrican American women in literatureSlavery in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Slave narrativesHistory and criticism.African American women in literature.Slavery in literature.810.9/9287/08996073Li Stephanie1977-1171735MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961650303321Something akin to freedom4367450UNINA