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African Americans in literature, Women and literature, African American authors, Intellectual life, History and criticism, Sex role in literature, African American women in literature, Women authors, Narration (Rhetoric), African American women, Slavery in literature, American fiction, Memory in literature, History, American fiction, african american authors, history and criticism, American fiction, women authors, African americans in literaturePlaces
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The freedom to remember: narrative, slavery, and gender in contemporary Black women's fiction
2002, Rutgers University Press
in English
0813530687 9780813530680
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl, Written by Herself: The Ur-Narrative of
Black Womanhood
Chapter 2 Not Enough of the Past: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred
Chapter 3 History, Agency, and Subjectivity in Sherley Anne
Williams's Dessa Rose
Chapter 4 The Metaphysics of Black Female Identity in
Toni Morrison's Beloved
Chapter 5 J. California Cooper's Family: Of (Absent?) Mothers,
(Motherless?) Daughters, and (Interracial?) Relations
Chapter 6 The Economies of Bondage and Freedom in Lorene
Cary's The Price of a Child
Epilogue: "Textual Healing" and the Liberatory
Narrative
Notes 151
Works Cited 163
Index 171.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.
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