| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 194 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SUNY series in Afro-American studies
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SUNY series in Afro-American studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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African American women -- Intellectual life.
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African American women -- Intellectual life. |
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African American women. |
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African American families in literature.
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African American families in literature. |
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African American women in literature.
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African American women in literature. |
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Mother and child in literature.
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Mother and child in literature. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Motherhood in literature.
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Motherhood in literature. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Patton, Venetria K., 1968- Women in chains. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000 0791443434 (DLC) 99014973 (OCoLC)41096074 |
| ISBN |
058531358X (electronic book) |
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9780585313580 (electronic book) |
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0585424756 (electronic book) |
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9780585424750 (electronic book) |
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0791443434 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791443439 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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0791443442 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791443446 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
