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Mastering Slavery : Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives / Jennifer B. Fleischner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780814728079
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5/67/0975
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 The Family Romances of Lydia Maria Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- CHAPTER 3 " We Could Have Told Them a Different Story!": Harriet Jacobs, John S. Jacobs, and the Rupture of Memory -- CHAPTER 4 Objects of Mourning in Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes -- CHAPTER 5 Enduring Memory: Kate Drumgoold and Julia A. J. Foote -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX
Summary: In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally been thought to reveal. Her study exposes the impact of the entangled relations among master, mistress, slave adults and slave children on the sense of identity of individual slave narrators. She explores the ways in which our of the social, psychological, biological--and literary--crossings and disruptions slavery engendered, these autobiographers created mixed, dynamic narrative selves.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 The Family Romances of Lydia Maria Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- CHAPTER 3 " We Could Have Told Them a Different Story!": Harriet Jacobs, John S. Jacobs, and the Rupture of Memory -- CHAPTER 4 Objects of Mourning in Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes -- CHAPTER 5 Enduring Memory: Kate Drumgoold and Julia A. J. Foote -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX

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In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally been thought to reveal. Her study exposes the impact of the entangled relations among master, mistress, slave adults and slave children on the sense of identity of individual slave narrators. She explores the ways in which our of the social, psychological, biological--and literary--crossings and disruptions slavery engendered, these autobiographers created mixed, dynamic narrative selves.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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