Mastering Slavery SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology a brash and beautiful story

a brash and beautiful story of a legendary Texas Hill Country ranch and the family who cherished its rugged land and lifestyle

2019 MLA Prize for a First Book

developed in intimate relation to slavery

Risible Rhymes offers intriguing insight into the critical concerns of mid-Ottoman Egypt

Mastering Slavery SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology a brash and beautiful storyIn 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 of