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

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Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	813.509 B377B	Check Shelf

Description	xvi, 177 pages ; 22 cm.
Series	Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 192
	Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 192.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.
Local Note	May '99, 50.00
	May '99, 50.00
Subject	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	Slavery in literature.
	Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
	African American women -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
	African American women in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Femininity in literature.
	Narration (Rhetoric)
ISBN	0313308381 alkaline paper

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