Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction

by Venetria K. Patton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791443434
• ISBN13: 9780791443439
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"