Novel bondage [[electronic resource] ] : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America / / Tess Chakkalakal

• Autore: Chakkalakal Tess
• Pubblicazione: Champaign, : University of Illinois Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (159 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.3093543
• Soggetto topico: Slavery in literature; Marriage in literature; Enslaved persons - United States - Social conditions; African Americans in literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Filling 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Novel bondage
• ISBN: 1-283-22389-9; 9786613223890; 0-252-09338-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779201203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II