Freeing the Soul
Race, Subjectivity, and Difference in Slave Narratives
Harryette Mullen(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-521-49751-0 (ISBN)
Description
Freeing the Soul is a critical literary study of slave narrative, focusing on the texts of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, nineteenth-century contemporaries and two of the most widely-read authors of US slave narratives. By contrasting representations of the heroic, solitary male slave narrator with the domestic, community-oriented female, Harryette Mullen identifies marked differences in these authors' conceptualisations of gender, literacy and freedom. A powerful analysis of the politics of gender, Freeing the Soul is a major contribution to the study of African-American literature and literary tradition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-521-49751-0 (9780521497510)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
1. My body and my word; 2. Writing on the body; 3. Technologies of body and soul; 4. The slave who dared to feel like a man thanks God he is not a woman; 5. Narrative silence vs. resistant orality; 6. Engendering orality; 7. Domestic interiors; 8. Suppressed hysteria vs. obsessional mastery.