How Long to Read Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative by Elizabeth A. Beaulieu

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Description

The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history from the perspective of the African American woman, most specifically the nineteenth century enslaved mother. The writers considered in this study—Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler—explore American slavery through the lens of gender, both to interrogate the myth that enslaved women, denied the privilege of having a gender identity by the institution of slavery, were in fact genderless, and to celebrate the acts of resistance which enabled enslaved women to mother in the fullest sense of the term. The volume begins with an overview of historical representations of slavery in America, from the slave narrative itself to the revisionist scholarship of the 1960s. The book then examines several individual neo-slave narratives, such as Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Williams' Dessa Rose (1986), Morrison's Beloved (1987), Cooper's Family (1991), Jones' Corregidora (1975), and Butler's Kindred (1979). What the women in these novels have in common is the fact that they mother; what the writers have in common is a tendency to utilize subversive strategies such as reversal, blurring, and the creation of myth to dramatize gender identity and to highlight the varied nature of motherhood as enslaved women experienced it. The final chapter evaluates the influence of the neo-slave narrative on American literature in general and on popular perceptions and misperceptions of African American women.

How long is Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative?

Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative by Elizabeth A. Beaulieu is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative aloud.

What Reading Level is Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative?

Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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