Title: The freedom to remember : narrative, slavery, and gender in contemporary Black women's fiction /
Authors: Mitchell, Angelyn, 1960-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: American fiction African American authors History and criticism; Slavery in literature; Women and literature United States History; American fiction Women authors History and criticism; American fiction History and criticism; African American women in literature.; African Americans in literature; Sex role in literature.; Memory in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric); African American women Intellectual life.
Contents: Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself: the ur-narrative of black womanhood -- Not enough of the past: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred -- History, agency, and subjectivity in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- The metaphysics of black female identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- J. California Cooper's family: of (absent?) mothers, (motherless?) daughters, and (interracial?) relations -- The economies of bondage and freedom in Lorene Cary's The price of a child.