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Angelyn MitchellPublication Details
BookRutgers University Press2002Availability
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- American fiction — African American authors — History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- Women and literature — United States — History — 20th century
- American fiction — Women authors — History and criticism
- American fiction — 20th century — History and criticism
- African American women in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Memory in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
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Contents
- Introduction: Visions and Revisions of Slavery
- Ch. 1. Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself: The Ur-Narrative of Black Womanhood
- Ch. 2. Not Enough of the Past: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred
- Ch. 3. History, Agency, and Subjectivity in Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose
- Ch. 4. The Metaphysics of Black Female Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
- Ch. 5. J. California Cooper’s Family: Of (Absent?) Mothers, (Motherless?) Daughters, and (Interracial?) Relations
- Ch. 6. The Economies of Bondage and Freedom in Lorene Cary’s The Price of a Child
- Epilogue: "Textual Healing" and the Liberatory Narrative
ISBN
- 0813530695
- 0813530687
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