Something akin to freedom : the choice of bondage in narratives by African American women /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Li, Stephanie, 1977-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2010]
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Slave narratives > United States > History and criticism. African American women in literature. Slavery in literature.

Table of Contents:

Intra-independence: reconceptualizing freedom and resistance to bondage
Choosing the bondage of domesticity and White womanhood in The bondwoman's narrative
Voluntary enslavement and discursive violence : plaðcage and Louisa Picquet
The bondage of memory in Gayl Jones's Corregidora
Coda: From bondage to war: the lives of contemporary Black women in the novels of Toni Morrison.