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Women in chains : the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction Cover Image

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Women in chains : the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction

Patton, Venetria K. 1968- (Author).

Summary: "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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781438415611
ISBN: 9780791443446
ISBN: 0791443442
ISBN: 9780791443439
ISBN: 0791443434
ISBN: 9780585424750
ISBN: 0585424756
ISBN: 9780585313580
ISBN: 058531358X
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 194 pages).
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Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.