Title
- Contributions In Afro-American And African Studies, 0069- 9624 ; No. 192
Attribution
Elizabeth Ann BeaulieuPublication Details
BookGreenwood Press1999Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS374.S58 B43 1999 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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California Cooper, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler–explore American slavery through the lens of gender, both to interrogate the myth that enslaved women, denied the privilege of having a gender identity by the institution of slavery, were in fact genderless, and to celebrate the acts of resistance which enabled enslaved women to mother in the fullest sense of the term. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American fiction — African American authors — History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- Feminism and literature — United States — History — 20th century
- Women and literature — United States — History — 20th century
- American fiction — Women authors — History and criticism
- American fiction — 20th century — History and criticism
- Historical fiction, American — History and criticism
- African American women — Intellectual life — 20th century
- African American women in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Femininity in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
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Contents
- 1. Slavery, Freedom, Jubilee: Reclaiming, Repositioning, and Revaluing the American Slave Narrative
- 2. "Cause I Can": Race, Gender, and Power in Sherley Anne Williams’ Dessa Rose
- 3. The Politics of Gender in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: If "a man ain’t nothing but a man," Then What Is a Woman?
- 4. Myth-Making, Myth-Breaking: "Such a thing … to marvel over" in J. California Cooper’s Family
- 5. "So Many Relatives": Twentieth-Century Women Meet Their Pasts
- 6. "Children of Those Who Chose to Survive": Neo- Slave Narrative Authors Create Women of Resistance
ISBN
- 0313308381
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