Something Akin To Freedom
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Something Akin To Freedom
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Author : Stephanie Li
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Something Akin To Freedom written by Stephanie Li and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.
Something Akin To Freedom
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Author : Stephanie Li
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2010-02-23
Something Akin To Freedom written by Stephanie Li and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Why would someone choose bondage over individual freedom? What type of freedom can be found in choosing conditions of enslavement? In Something Akin to Freedom, winner of the 2008 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies, Stephanie Li explores literary texts where African American women decide to remain in or enter into conditions of bondage, sacrificing individual autonomy to achieve other goals. In fresh readings of stories by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Gayl Jones, Louisa Picquet, and Toni Morrison, Li argues that amid shifting positions of power and through acts of creative agency, the women in these narratives make seemingly anti-intuitive choices that are simultaneously limiting and liberating. She explores how the appeal of the freedom of the North is constrained by the potential for isolation and destabilization for women rooted in strong social networks in the South. By introducing reproduction, mother-child relationships, and community into discourses concerning resistance, Li expands our understanding of individual liberation to include the courage to express personal desire and the freedom to love.
Something Akin To Freedom
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Author : Annie Z. Li
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Something Akin To Freedom written by Annie Z. Li and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
In Search Of Something Akin To Freedom
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Author : Katrina Songanett Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
In Search Of Something Akin To Freedom written by Katrina Songanett Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
ABSTRACT: This thesis examines both historical and fictional representations of interracial relationships in the 18th century. My argument in this project is two-fold. First, I argue that some black women used sexual relationships with white men to gain advantages for themselves and their fellow slaves. Second, I argue that novelists of the time period re-wrote history in an attempt to erase the positive aspects of miscegenation.
Regulating Sex
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Author : Elizabeth Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-01-05
Regulating Sex written by Elizabeth Bernstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-05 with Social Science categories.
Regulating Sex is an anthology that presents debates over the role of the state in constructing and controlling erotic practice, intimacy, and identity. The purpose of this edited volume is to address sexual dilemmas in law and the state in substantive areas such as same-sex domestic partnerships, sexual economies, and childhood sexuality via a series of spirited dialogues between socio-legal scholars from diverse disciplinary, national, and political perspectives.
The Cambridge Companion To The African American Slave Narrative
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Author : Audrey Fisch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-31
The Cambridge Companion To The African American Slave Narrative written by Audrey Fisch and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.
The Time Is Always Now
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Author : Nick Bromell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-04
The Time Is Always Now written by Nick Bromell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-04 with Political Science categories.
"Why," asks Nick Bromell, "should the political thought of white Americans remain the only theory to which Americans of all ethnicities turn when constructing and reconstructing their understanding of democracy? Must Americans remain locked in an apartheid of experience and perception even after whites have become a minority population in this nation? Hasn't the 2012 presidential election made clear that the time has come to build not just on the votes of citizens of color, but on the varieties of democratic thought their experience has engendered?" In his answers to these questions, Bromell brings to light an underappreciated stream of democratic reflection by black writers and activists from David Walker to Malcolm X. Bromell argues that these thinkers urge Americans to fundamentally re-imagine the nature of their democracy and recognize that indignation can be a powerful and productive democratic emotion; that dignity is just as important to democracy as equality and liberty; that national citizenship can be infused with a sense of responsibility to the world; and that faith can actually promote rather than threaten democratic pluralism. A literary critic and intellectual historian, Bromell draws on a wide range of fiction, essays, speeches, and oral histories, deftly synthesizing recent work in U.S. history, literary and cultural studies, and political theory. Like the figures he discusses, he puts this thought to work in the present moment, this "now." Black democratic insights, he shows, are strikingly relevant to the challenges facing US democracy today, and they provide the basis for a new, post-liberal public philosophy with which to turn back the rise of radical conservatism. Historian Robin D.G. Kelley writes: "In this work of enormous breadth, depth, and imagination, Nick Bromell makes what may be the most original contribution to political theory in the past decade. In this age of alleged color blindness, Bromell has the vision and the chutzpah to turn to African American thought-ideas born of struggle, anchored in questions of dignity, human relationships, and faith-in order to revitalize American democracy. "
As If She Were Free
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Author : Erica L. Ball
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-08
As If She Were Free written by Erica L. Ball and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.
Alabama Women
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Author : Susan Youngblood Ashmore
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2017
Alabama Women written by Susan Youngblood Ashmore and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama. Featured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing, Julia S. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Sara Martin Mayfield, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles Smith, and Harper Lee. Contributors: -Nancy Grisham Anderson on Harper Lee -Harriet E. Amos Doss on the enslaved women surgical patients of J. Marion Sims -Wayne Flynt and Marlene Hunt Rikard on Pattie Ruffner Jacobs -Caroline Gebhard on Bess Bolden Walcott -Staci Simon Glover on the immigrant women in metropolitan Birmingham -Sharony Green on the Townsend Family -Sheena Harris on Margaret Murray Washington -Christopher D. Haveman on the women of the Creek Removal Era -Kimberly D. Hill on Maria Fearing -Tina Naremore Jones on Ruby Pickens Tartt -Jenny M. Luke on Margaret Charles Smith -Rebecca Cawood McIntyre on Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and Sara Martin Mayfield -Rebecca S. Montgomery on Ida E. Brandon Mathis -Paul M. Pruitt Jr. on Julia S. Tutwiler -Susan E. Reynolds on Augusta Evans Wilson -Patricia Sullivan on Virginia Foster Durr -Jeanne Theoharis on Rosa Parks -Susan Youngblood Ashmore on Lurleen Burns Wallace
A Short History Of Anglo Saxon Freedom
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Author : James Kendall Hosmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
A Short History Of Anglo Saxon Freedom written by James Kendall Hosmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Anglo-Saxon race categories.
