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.