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Something akin to freedom : the choice of bondage in narratives by African American women / Stephanie Li.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Stephanie, 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Slave narratives--United States--History and criticism.
- Slave narratives.
- African American women in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.
- Contents:
- Intra-independence: reconceptualizing freedom and resistance to bondage
- Choosing the bondage of domesticity and White womanhood in The bondwoman's narrative
- Voluntary enslavement and discursive violence : placage and Louisa Picquet
- The bondage of memory in Gayl Jones's Corregidora
- Coda: From bondage to war: the lives of contemporary Black women in the novels of Toni Morrison.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438429724
- 143842972X
- 9781441640956
- 1441640959
- OCLC:
- 593295835
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