Ruth D. Peterson

Mastering Slavery

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ISBN 13:
9780814726532
author:
Ruth D. Peterson
format:
Paperback
publisher:
NYU Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
1996
Pages:
244
Genre:
Literature
Condition:
New
Availability:
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£24.83

Description

Jennifer Fleischner's Mastering Slavery explores how slave narratives reveal complex notions of familial dynamics and identity. By analyzing the interactions between master, mistress, slave adults and children, she uncovers the ways in which these autobiographers created dynamic narrative selves.

The study draws on a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to examine the impact of slavery on individual identity. Fleischner reveals how the entangled relations among slave narrators and white women's antislavery fiction yield a more nuanced understanding of familial dynamics.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the slave narratives, exposing the ways in which the social, psychological, biological, and literary disruptions of slavery shaped the narrative selves of these autobiographers.

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