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Tess Chakkalakal - Novel Bondage - 9780252036330 - V9780252036330
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Novel Bondage

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Description for Novel Bondage Hardback. Reworking classic literary texts to explore the unconventional union of slave-marriage Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Novel Bondage unravels the interconnections between marriage, slavery, and freedom through renewed readings of canonical nineteenth-century novels and short stories by black and white authors. Situating close readings of fiction alongside archival material concerning the actual marriages of authors such as Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Frank J. Webb, Chakkalakal examines how these early novels established literary conventions for describing the domestic lives of American slaves in describing their aspirations for personal and civic freedom. Exploring this theme in post-Civil War works by Frances E.W. Harper and Charles Chesnutt, she further reveals how the slave-marriage ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252036330
SKU
V9780252036330
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Tess Chakkalakal
Tess Chakkalakal is an assistant professor of Africana studies and English at Bowdoin College.

Reviews for Novel Bondage
Selected as one of two winners of the Robert K. Martin Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS), 2012. "Chakkalakal's book provides a new perspective on the central figures within the black family and the ways in which that aspect of family helps create meaning within the community and identify in the ... Read more

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