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Author:

Beaulieu, Elizabeth Ann.

Title:

Black women writers and the American neo-slave narrative : femininity unfettered / Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu.

Publisher:

Greenwood Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

xvi, 177 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
African American women--Intellectual life.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.
Feminism in literature--United States--History--20th century.
Roman américain--Histoire et critique.--Histoire et critique.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Féminisme et littérature--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siècle.
Femmes et littérature--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siècle.
Roman américain--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Roman historique américain--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Noires américaines--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.
Noires américaines dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Féminité dans la littérature.
Narration.
Écrits de femmes américains--Histoire et critique.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-171) and index.

Contents:

Slavery, freedom, Jubilee : reclaiming, repositioning, and revaluing the American slave narrative -- "Cause I can" : race, gender, and power in Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose -- The politics of gender in Toni Morrison's Beloved : if "a man ain't nothing but a man," then what is a woman? -- Myth-making, myth-breaking : "Such a thing...to marvel over" in J. California Cooper's Family -- "So many relatives" : twentieth-century women meet their pasts -- "Children of those who chose to survive" : neo-slave narrative authors create women of resistance.

Series:

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 192

ISBN:

9780313308383 (alk. paper)
0313308381 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

98033756

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)