Something akin to freedom : the choice of bondage in narratives by African American women / Stephanie Li.

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Main Author: Li, Stephanie, 1977-
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2010.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Slave narratives > United States > History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Physical Description:x, 162 pages
Format: Book
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 : plaçage 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.