Something akin to freedom [[electronic resource] ] : the choice of bondage in narratives by African American women / / Stephanie Li
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Li Stephanie <1977->
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| Titolo: |
Something akin to freedom [[electronic resource] ] : the choice of bondage in narratives by African American women / / Stephanie Li
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/9287/08996073 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Something akin to freedom |
| ISBN: | 1-4384-2972-X |
| 1-4416-4095-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810223503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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