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Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative

Author : Elizabeth A. Beaulieu
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313308381
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative written by Elizabeth A. Beaulieu and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history from the perspective of the African American woman, most specifically the nineteenth century enslaved mother. The writers considered in this study—Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler—explore American slavery through the lens of gender, both to interrogate the myth that enslaved women, denied the privilege of having a gender identity by the institution of slavery, were in fact genderless, and to celebrate the acts of resistance which enabled enslaved women to mother in the fullest sense of the term. The volume begins with an overview of historical representations of slavery in America, from the slave narrative itself to the revisionist scholarship of the 1960s. The book then examines several individual neo-slave narratives, such as Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Williams' Dessa Rose (1986), Morrison's Beloved (1987), Cooper's Family (1991), Jones' Corregidora (1975), and Butler's Kindred (1979). What the women in these novels have in common is the fact that they mother; what the writers have in common is a tendency to utilize subversive strategies such as reversal, blurring, and the creation of myth to dramatize gender identity and to highlight the varied nature of motherhood as enslaved women experienced it. The final chapter evaluates the influence of the neo-slave narrative on American literature in general and on popular perceptions and misperceptions of African American women.

Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative

Author : Elizabeth A. Beaulieu
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative written by Elizabeth A. Beaulieu and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history from the perspective of the African American woman, most specifically the nineteenth century enslaved mother. The writers considered in this study—Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler—explore American slavery through the lens of gender, both to interrogate the myth that enslaved women, denied the privilege of having a gender identity by the institution of slavery, were in fact genderless, and to celebrate the acts of resistance which enabled enslaved women to mother in the fullest sense of the term. The volume begins with an overview of historical representations of slavery in America, from the slave narrative itself to the revisionist scholarship of the 1960s. The book then examines several individual neo-slave narratives, such as Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Williams' Dessa Rose (1986), Morrison's Beloved (1987), Cooper's Family (1991), Jones' Corregidora (1975), and Butler's Kindred (1979). What the women in these novels have in common is the fact that they mother; what the writers have in common is a tendency to utilize subversive strategies such as reversal, blurring, and the creation of myth to dramatize gender identity and to highlight the varied nature of motherhood as enslaved women experienced it. The final chapter evaluates the influence of the neo-slave narrative on American literature in general and on popular perceptions and misperceptions of African American women.

Six Women's Slave Narratives

Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195052626
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (526 download)

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Book Synopsis Six Women's Slave Narratives by : William L. Andrews

Download or read book Six Women's Slave Narratives written by William L. Andrews and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six narrations by slave women about their lives during and after their years in bondage, honoring the nobility and strength of African-American women of that era.

Liberating Narratives

Author : Stefanie Sievers
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825839192
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Liberating Narratives written by Stefanie Sievers and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three contemporary novels of slavery - Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986) and Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) - are the central focus of Liberating Narratives. In significantly different ways that reflect their individual and socio-political contexts of origin, these three novels can all be read as critiques of historical representation and as alternative spaces for remembrance - 'sites of memory' - that attempt to shift the conceptual ground on which our knowledge of the past is based.

Writing African American Women [2 volumes]

Author : Elizabeth A. Beaulieu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313024626
Total Pages : 1035 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Writing African American Women [2 volumes] written by Elizabeth A. Beaulieu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 1035 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have had a complex experience in African American culture. The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia approaches African American literature from a Women's Studies perspective. While Yolanda Williams Page's Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers provides biographical entries on more than 150 literary figures, this book is much broader in scope. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries on African American women writers, as well as on male writers who have treated women in their works. Entries on genres, periods, themes, characters, historical events, texts, places, and other topics are included as well. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and relates its subject to the overall experience of women in African American literature. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. African American culture is enormously diverse, and the experience of women in African American society is especially complex. Women were among the first African American writers, and works by black women writers are popular among students and general readers alike. At the same time, African American women have been oppressed, and texts by black male authors represent women in a variety of ways. The first of its kind, this encyclopedia approaches African American literature from a Women's Studies perspective, and thus significantly illuminates the African American cultural experience through literary works. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, written by numerous expert contributors. In addition to covering male and female African American authors, the encyclopedia also discusses themes, major works and characters, genres, periods, historical events, places, and other topics. Included are entries on such authors as: ; Maya Angelou ; James Baldwin ; Frederick Douglass ; Nikki Giovanni ; June Jordan ; Claude McKay ; Ishmael Reed ; Sojourner Truth ; Phillis Wheatley ; And many others. In addition, the many works discussed include: ; Beloved ; Blanche on the Lam ; Iknow Why the Caged Bird Sings ; The Men of Brewster Place ; Quicksand ; The Street ; Waiting to Exhale ; And many more. The many topical entries cover: ; Black Feminism ; Black Nationalism ; Conjuring ; Children's and Young Adult Literature ; Detective Fiction ; Epistolary Novel ; Motherhood ; Sexuality ; Spirituality ; Stereotypes ; And many others. Entries relate their topics to the experience of African American women and cite works for further reading. Features and Benefits: ; Includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries. ; Draws on the work of numerous expert contributors. ; Includes a selected, general bibliography. ; Offers a range of finding aids, such as a list of entries, a guide to related topics, and an extensive index. ; Supports the literature curriculum by helping students analyze major writers and works. ; Supports the social studies curriculum by helping students use literature to understand the experience of African American women. ; Covers the full chronological range of African American literature. ; Fosters a respect for cultural diversity. ; Develops research skills by directing students to additional sources of information. ; Builds bridges between African American history, literature, and Women's Studies.

Neo-slave Narratives

Author : Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195125339
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Neo-slave Narratives written by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent cultural debates that arose during the sixties."--BOOK JACKET.

Writing African American Women

Author : Elizabeth A. Beaulieu
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313331960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Writing African American Women written by Elizabeth A. Beaulieu and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have had a complex experience in African American culture. The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia approaches African American literature from a Women's Studies perspective. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries on African American women writers, as well as on male writers who have treated women in their works. Entries on genres, periods, themes, characters, historical events, texts, places, and other topics are included as well. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and relates its subject to the overall experience of women in African American literature. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative

Author : Audrey Fisch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827596
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative written by Audrey Fisch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.

Black American Women's Writings

Author : Eva Lennox Birch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315504073
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Black American Women's Writings written by Eva Lennox Birch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses a range of novels, short stories and essays by black American women writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present time. It begins with a survey of 19th-century black women's slave narratives, early sentimental novels and autobiographies and then focuses on six writers: Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Maya Angelou. The text shows how these writers have developed the preoccupations, themes and narrative strategies of their literary ancestors.

Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma

Author : Valérie Croisille
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527577546
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma written by Valérie Croisille and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concentrates on six neo-slave narratives written by late 20th and early 21st century black American women: Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Gayl Jones’ Corregidora, Joan California Cooper’s Family, and Athena Lark’s Avenue of Palms. It explores the process of re(-)membering of the black female characters in these novels, and shows how these authors manage to both write the transgenerational trauma of slavery and write through it, enabling black American women’s voices to be heard. This analysis of famous classics, as well as less-known books, demonstrates how black American women’s traumatic memory of slavery is inscribed in a transgenerational black female body. Conjuring up questions of narratology and intertextuality, it highlights how working-through takes the form of a narrativization of this traumatic memory by diverse means. This book also reflects upon the links between the collective and personal psyches by laying emphasis on the ineluctable intertwining of national history and individual destiny.

Models and Modifications

Author : Karin Schmidli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Models and Modifications written by Karin Schmidli and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in Chains

Author : Venetria K. Patton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438415613
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Women in Chains written by Venetria K. Patton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the connection between slavery and the way in which black women fiction writers depict female characters and address gender issues, particularly maternity. 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. Venetria K. Patton is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Black American Women's Voices and Transgenerational Trauma

Author : VALERIE. CROISILLE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527599178
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Black American Women's Voices and Transgenerational Trauma written by VALERIE. CROISILLE and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concentrates on six neo-slave narratives written by late 20th and early 21st century black American women: Octavia Butler's Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Gayl Jones' Corregidora, Joan California Cooper's Family, and Athena Lark's Avenue of Palms. It explores the process of re(-)membering of the black female characters in these novels, and shows how these authors manage to both write the transgenerational trauma of slavery and write through it, enabling black American women's voices to be heard. This analysis of famous classics, as well as less-known books, demonstrates how black American women's traumatic memory of slavery is inscribed in a transgenerational black female body. Conjuring up questions of narratology and intertextuality, it highlights how working-through takes the form of a narrativization of this traumatic memory by diverse means. This book also reflects upon the links between the collective and personal psyches by laying emphasis on the ineluctable intertwining of national history and individual destiny.

The Freedom to Remember

Author : Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813530697
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Freedom to Remember written by Angelyn Mitchell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Freedom to Remember examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. The narratives at the center of this book include: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred, Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose, Toni Morrison's Beloved, J. California Cooper's Family, and Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child. Recent studies have investigated these works only from the standpoint of victimization. Angelyn Mitchell changes the conceptualization of these narratives, focusing on the theme of freedom, not slavery, defining these works as "liberatory narratives." These works create a space to problematize the slavery/freedom dichotomy from which contemporary black women writers have the "safe" vantage point to reveal aspects of enslavement that their ancestors could not examine. The nineteenth-century female emancipatory narrative, by contrast, was written to aid the cause of abolition by revealing the unspeakable realitiesof slavery. Mitchell shows how the liberatory narrative functions to emancipate its readers from the legacies of slavery in American society: by facilitating a deeper discussion of the issues and by making them new through illumination and interrogation.

A History of the African American Novel

Author : Valerie Babb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107061725
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A History of the African American Novel written by Valerie Babb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.

Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives

Author : Dana Renee Horton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179361914X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives written by Dana Renee Horton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives provides an innovative conceptual framework for describing representations of slavery in twenty-first century American cultural productions. Covering a broad range of narrative forms ranging from novels like The Known World to films like 12 Years a Slave and the music of Missy Elliott, Dana Renee Horton engages with post-neo-slave narratives, a genre she defines as literary and visual texts that mesh conventions of postmodernity with the neo-slave narrative. Focusing on the characterization of black women in these texts, Horton argues that they are portrayed as commodities who commodify enslaved people, a fluid and complex characterization that is a foundational aspect of postmodern identity and emphasizes how postmodern identity restructures the conception of slave-owners.

Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement

Author : L. Myles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230103162
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement written by L. Myles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female Subjectivity in African American Women s Narratives of Enslavement is a new and innovative study of black women s transformation, which focuses on black women writers who support the notion of separate location for a changed female consciousness. This book offers the concept of the "Transient Woman" as a new paradigm and feminist vision for analyzing female subjectivity and consciousness.