Mastering Slavery
：Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
Publication subTitle ：Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
Author： Fleischner Jennifer B.
Publisher： NYU Press
Publication year： 1996
E-ISBN: 9780814728888
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780814726532
Subject： C91 Sociology;I106 the classics and study;K14 in the United States: 1640 ~ 1917);K15 contemporary history (1917 ~);K7 Americas History
Keyword： 作品评论和研究,美洲史,现代史（1917年~）,近代史（1640~1917年）,社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally been thought to reveal. Her study exposes the impact of the entangled relations among master, mistress, slave adults and slave children on the sense of identity of individual slave narrators. She explores the ways in which our of the social, psychological, biological--and literary--crossings and disruptions slavery engendered, these autobiographers created mixed, dynamic narrative selves.
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