Black women writers and the American neo-slave narrative: femininity unfettered

Abstract

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 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