LEADER 02881nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910961650303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781438429724 010 $a143842972X 010 $a9781441640956 010 $a1441640959 035 $a(CKB)2670000000016866 035 $a(OCoLC)593295835 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574024 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000343076 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11247822 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343076 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10287868 035 $a(PQKB)10961472 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1658 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407163 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574024 035 $a(DE-B1597)683926 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438429724 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407163 035 $a(Perlego)2674722 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000016866 100 $a20090508d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSomething akin to freedom $ethe choice of bondage in narratives by African American women /$fStephanie Li 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (176 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781438429700 311 08$a1438429703 311 08$a9781438429717 311 08$a1438429711 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntra-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. 330 $aExamines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSlave narratives$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American women in literature 606 $aSlavery in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSlave narratives$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American women in literature. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 676 $a810.9/9287/08996073 700 $aLi$b Stephanie$f1977-$01171735 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961650303321 996 $aSomething akin to freedom$94367450 997 $aUNINA