LEADER 03200nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910457640903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-22389-9 010 $a9786613223890 010 $a0-252-09338-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000089209 035 $a(OCoLC)748214432$z(OCoLC)761466239$z(OCoLC)785781154$z(OCoLC)816857447$z(OCoLC)923492867$z(OCoLC)961580157$z(OCoLC)962693939 035 $a(OCoLC)ocn748214432 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10532308 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000576055 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11408633 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000576055 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10553963 035 $a(PQKB)10664556 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3413836 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000927276 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23676 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3413836 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10532308 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL322389 035 $a(OCoLC)923492867 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000089209 100 $a20110303d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNovel bondage$b[electronic resource] $eslavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America /$fTess Chakkalakal 210 $aChampaign $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (159 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-252-07904-3 311 $a0-252-03633-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 8 $aFilling 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. 606 $aSlavery in literature 606 $aMarriage in literature 606 $aSlaves$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 615 0$aSlaves$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 676 $a813/.3093543 700 $aChakkalakal$b Tess$0893096 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457640903321 996 $aNovel bondage$91994751 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$42.00$u04/23/2016$5Eng