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Women in chains : the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction
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"Using writers such as Harriet Wilson, Frances E.W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, Toni Morrison, Sherley Anne Williams, and Gayl Jones, the author highlights recurring themes and the various responses o...
"Using writers such as Harriet Wilson, Frances E.W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, Toni Morrison, Sherley Anne Williams, and Gayl Jones, the author highlights recurring themes and the various responses of black women writers to the issues of race and gender. Time and again these writers link slavery with motherhood - their depictions of black womanhood are tied to the effects of slavery and represented through the black mother. Patton shows that both the image others have of black women as well as black women's own self image is framed and influenced by the history of slavery. This history would have us believe that female slaves were mere breeders and not mothers.
However, Patton uses the mother figure as a tool to create an intriguing interdisciplinary literary analysis."--Jacket.
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- Creator
- Venetria K. Patton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 194 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781438415611, 0791443442, 058531358X, 0791443434, 9780585313580, 0585424756, 9780791443439, 9780791443446, 9780585424750
- OCLC
- ocm41096074, ocm45728438
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
- The breeding ground: the degendering of female slaves -- The cult of true womanhood and its revisions -- Reclaiming true womanhood -- Tragic Mulattas: inventing Black womanhood -- The haunting effects of slavery
Subjects
- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- African American women -- Intellectual life.
- African American families in literature.
- African American women in literature.
- Mother and child in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.