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BL
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702637
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b524826
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| Main Entry
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Patton, Venetria K.,1968-
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| Title & Author
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Women in chains : : the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction /\ Venetria K. Patton
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, [2000]
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, ©2000
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in Afro-American studies
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| Page. NO
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xviii, 194 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0791443434
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: 0791443442
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: 9780791443439
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: 9780791443446
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index
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| Contents
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The breeding ground: the degendering of female slaves -- The cult of true womanhood and its revisions -- Reclaiming true womanhood -- Tragic Mulattas: inventing Black womanhood -- The haunting effects of slavery
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| Abstract
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"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 with motherhood - their depictions of black womanhood are tied to the effects of slavery and represented through the black mother. Patton shows that both the image others have of black women as well as black women's own self image is framed and influenced by the history of slavery. This history would have us believe that female slaves were mere breeders and not mothers
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However, Patton uses the mother figure as a tool to create an intriguing interdisciplinary literary analysis."--Jacket
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African American families in literature
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African American women in literature
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African American women-- Intellectual life
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African Americans in literature
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American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism
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American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism
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Mother and child in literature
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Motherhood in literature
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Slavery in literature
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Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.5099287/08996073
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| LC Classification
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PS374.N4P38 2000
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