Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered (Hardcover)

Preface 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 References Index