Women in chains : the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction

Women in chains : the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction / Venetria K. Patton.

"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...

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Main Author: Patton, Venetria K., 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Series:SUNY series in Afro-American studies.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life.
African American families in literature.
African American women in literature.
Mother and child in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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