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Novel bondage : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America / Tess Chakkalakal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chakkalakal, Tess.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons.
- African Americans in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (159 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Champaign : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Filling a long-standing gap in our knowledge about slave-marriage, 'Novel Bondage' unravels the interconnections between marriage, slavery, and freedom through renewed readings of canonical nineteenth-century novels and short stories by black and white authors. Tess Chakkalakal expertly mines antislavery and post-Civil War fiction to extract literary representations of slave-marriage, revealing how these texts and their public responses took aim not only at the horrors of slavery but also at the legal conventions of marriage.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the slave-marriage plot
- Between fiction and experience: William Wells Brown's Clotel
- Dred and the freedom of marriage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's fiction of law
- Free, black, and married: Frank J. Webb's the Garies and their friends
- "A legally unmarried race": Frances Harper's marital mission
- Wedded to race: Charles Chesnutt's stories of the color line
- Conclusion: reading Hannah Crafts in the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613223890
- 9781283223898
- 1283223899
- 9780252093388
- 0252093380
- OCLC:
- 748214432
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