The freedom to remember
Subtitle: narrative, slavery, and gender in contemporary Black women's fiction
By: Angelyn Mitchell.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: 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 -- Intellectual life; African American women in literature; African Americans in literature; Sex role in literature; Memory in literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave; title: Girl, Written by Herself: The Ur-Narrative of; title: Black Womanhood; title: Chapter 2 Not Enough of the Past: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred; title: Chapter 3 History, Agency, and Subjectivity in Sherley Anne; title: Williams's Dessa Rose; title: Chapter 4 The Metaphysics of Black Female Identity in; title: Toni Morrison's Beloved; title: Chapter 5 J. California Cooper's Family: Of (Absent?) Mothers,; title: (Motherless?) Daughters, and (Interracial?) Relations; title: Chapter 6 The Economies of Bondage and Freedom in Lorene; title: Cary's The Price of a Child; title: Epilogue: "Textual Healing" and the Liberatory; title: Narrative; title: Notes 151; title: Works Cited 163; title: Index 171.