Mastering Slavery
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In Mastering Slavery , Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally been thought to reveal. Her study exposes the impact...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0814726534
ISBN13:9780814726532
Release Date:July 1996
Publisher:New York University Press
Length:244 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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Mastering Slavery is a book which has many layers of scholar
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Mastering slavery is an excellent book. Jennifer Fleischner has written a truly interdisciplinary account of a subject that is too often simplified. The intensely complex relationships that existed in the plantation system are examined in this book through the lens of psychoanalysis and literary history, a unique treatment of the subject, as far as I can tell. Fleischner, a former professor of mine at SUNYA, brings to her writing the same rigor she demanded in her classroom, a space where scholarship still matters.
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