Angelyn Mitchell

Broschiertes Buch

The Freedom to Remember

Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction

Beschreibung

Examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. Books studied include ""Kindred"", ""Dessa Rose"" and ""Beloved"". These works create a space to problematize the slavery/freedom dichotomy from which contemporay black women have a ""safe"" vantage point.

Autor

Angelyn Mitchell is an associate professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the editor of Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780813530697
• ISBN-10: 0813530695
• Artikelnr.: 21248326