Novel bondage : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America / Tess Chakkalakal

Author: Chakkalakal, Tess
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Copyright Date: ©2011
Physical Description: 1 online resource

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English.

Contents

Introduction: the slave-marriage plot -- Between fiction and experience: William Wells Brown's Clotel -- Dred and the freedom of marriage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's fiction of law -- Free, black, and married: Frank J. Webb's the Garies and their friends -- "A legally unmarried race": Frances Harper's marital mission -- Wedded to race: Charles Chesnutt's stories of the color line -- Conclusion: reading Hannah Crafts in the twenty-first century.

Summary

Reworking classic literary texts to explore the unconventional union of slave-marriage.

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9780252036330 cloth : alk. paper
0252036336 cloth : alk. paper
9780252093388 epub
0252093380
1283223899
9781283223898
9786613223890
6613223891

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-138) and index.

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