{"product_id":"the-freedom-to-remember-angelyn-mitchell-9780813530697","title":"The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction","description":"\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\u003e Family\u003c\/i\u003e, and Lorene Cary's \u003ci\u003eThe Price of a Child\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecent 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\u003enarrative, by contrast, was written to aid the cause of abolition by revealing the unspeakable realities\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eof 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angelyn Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813530695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813530697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2002 pg. 470","brand":"Angelyn Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926403547391,"sku":"9780813530697","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0be6219d-0acb-45bd-afc7-b6b4a5010bb4.jpg?v=1681082894","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-freedom-to-remember-angelyn-mitchell-9780813530697","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}