Women in chains : the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction / Venetria K. Patton.
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TextSeries: SUNY series in Afro-American studiesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 194 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9780585313580
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- 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
- Roman am�ericain -- Auteurs noirs am�ericains -- Histoire et critique
- Femmes et litt�erature -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle
- Roman am�ericain -- 20e si�ecle -- Histoire et critique
- Familles noires am�ericaines dans la litt�erature
- Noires am�ericaines dans la litt�erature
- M�ere et enfant dans la litt�erature
- Noirs am�ericains dans la litt�erature
- Maternit�e dans la litt�erature
- Esclavage dans la litt�erature
- �Ecrits de femmes am�ericains -- Histoire et critique
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- African American families in literature
- African American women in literature
- African American women -- Intellectual life
- African Americans in literature
- American fiction -- African American authors
- American fiction -- Women authors
- Mother and child in literature
- Motherhood in literature
- Slavery in literature
- Women and literature
- United States
- 1900-1999
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- PS374.N4 P38 2000eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
"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.
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.
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