Something akin to freedom
Subtitle: the choice of bondage in narratives by African American women
By: Stephanie Li.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438429717
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intra-independence: reconceptualizing freedom and resistance to bondage; title: Choosing the bondage of domesticity and white womanhood in The bondwoman's narrative; title: Voluntary enslavement and discursive violence : plaçage and Louisa Picquet; title: The bondage of memory in Gayl Jones's Corregidora; title: Coda: from bondage to war: the lives of contemporary black women in the novels of Toni Morrison.