Mastering slavery : memory, family, and identity in women's slave narratives

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleischner, Jennifer B.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: NYU Press, 1996.

Summary:

In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally been thought to reveal. Her study exposes the impact of the entangled relations among master, mistress, slave adults and slave children on the sense of identity of individual slave narrators.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Family Romances of Lydia Maria Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe; 3 "We Could Have ToldThem a Different Story!": Harriet Jacobs, John S.Jacobs, and the Rupture of Memory; 4 Objects of Mourning in Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes; 5 Enduring Memory; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780814728888

081472888X

9780814728079

0814728073

9780585313696

0585313695

OCLC:

913695253