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Autore: | Chakkalakal Tess |
Titolo: | Novel bondage [[electronic resource] ] : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America / / Tess Chakkalakal |
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 | |
Slaves - United States - Social conditions | |
African Americans in literature | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910457640903321 |
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