{"product_id":"the-freedom-to-remember-narrative-slavery-and-gender-in-contemporary-black-womens-fiction-paperback","title":"The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAngelyn Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Freedom to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. The narratives at the center of this book include: Octavia E. Butler's \u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e, Sherley Anne Williams's \u003ci\u003eDessa Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, J. California Cooper's \u003ci\u003eFamily\u003c\/i\u003e, and Lorene Cary's \u003ci\u003eThe Price of a Child\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Recent studies have investigated these works only from the standpoint of victimization. Angelyn Mitchell changes the conceptualization of these narratives, focusing on the theme of freedom, not slavery, defining these works as \"liberatory narratives.\" These works create a space to problematize the slavery\/freedom dichotomy from which contemporary black women writers have the \"safe\" vantage point to reveal aspects of enslavement that their ancestors could not examine. The nineteenth-century female \u003ci\u003eemancipatory\u003c\/i\u003e narrative, by contrast, was written to aid the cause of abolition by revealing the unspeakable realitiesof slavery. Mitchell shows how the liberatory narrative functions to emancipate its readers from the legacies of slavery in American society: by facilitating a deeper discussion of the issues and by making them new through illumination and interrogation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngelyn Mitchell is an associate professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eWithin the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130564710535,"sku":"9780813530697","price":66.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8a17b4b1e52c22c2c2029e0b5cd52ee3.webp?v=1732611925","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-freedom-to-remember-narrative-slavery-and-gender-in-contemporary-black-womens-fiction-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}