''Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part - Love and Marriage in African America

Zusatztext This is a challenging and important text. After deconstructing our national myths about marriage and our specific assumptions about African American marriage, Foster masterfully reconstructs the reality of marriage for enslaved black people. Rather than finding a fragile institution of transient attachments, she uncovers a legacy of love, struggle, and commitment. By choosing whom to love, how to love, and what to sacrifice, black Americans carved out space for their human selves. Their marriages contributed to decades of resistance against the dehumanizing effects of slavery. Although there is not a hint of sentimentalism, this book is truly an inspiring love story. Informationen zum Autor Frances Smith Foster is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies (Emeritus) at Emory University. Her previous books include Written By Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 (Indiana UP, 1993), Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Ante-Bellum Slave Narrative (Greenwood, 1979), and several edited collections. Her VSI to African American Literature is forthcoming. Klappentext Frances Smith Foster offers a groundbreaking new portrait of early African American marriage, upending the conventional wisdom that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, or that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones. Zusammenfassung Frances Smith Foster offers a groundbreaking new portrait of early African American marriage, upending the conventional wisdom that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, or that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones. Inhaltsverzeichnis One: Adam and Eve, Antony and Isabella Two: Terms of Endearment Three: Practical Thoughts, Divine Mandates, and the Afro-Protestant Press Four: Rights and Rituals Five: Myths, Memory, and Self-Realization Six: Getting Stories Straight, Keeping Them Real Seven: Alchemy of Personal Politics Eight: Me, Mende, and Sankofa: An Epilogue ...

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• Authors: Frances Smith Foster, Frances Smith (Charles Howard Chandler Pro Foster, Frances Smith (Charles Howard Chandler Professor in English and Women's Studies and Chair of the English Department Foster, Foster Frances Smith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2014
• EAN: 9780199389704
• ISBN: 978-0-19-938970-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Christianity, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), Slavery and abolition of slavery, c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)