The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction by Mitchell, Angelyn - 2002

Piscataway, New Jersey, U. S. A.: Rutgers Univ Pr. New with no dust jacket. 2002. Softcover. The Freedom to Remember examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. Reent studies have investigated thee works only from the standpoint of victimization. Angelyn Mitchell changes the conceptualization of these narratives, focusing on the theme of freedom, no slavery, defining these works as "liberatory narratives. " 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. The author looks at six main works, although cites dozens in her analyses. 179 pages including an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .