TY  - GEN
T1  - Smooth operating and other social acts.
A1  - ROLAND LEANDER WILLIAMS
LA  - English
PP  - ALBANY
PB  - STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1331299880
AB  - Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States, Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts uncovers a mode of behavior adopted by African Americans for relief from the brutality of black bondage. Roland Leander Williams grants that African Americans have been beaten, but he guarantees that they have not been broken. While he acknowledges that they have been demeaned, he assures that they have not been diminished. Williams confesses that African Americans have been done harm, but he confirms that they have not become disheartened. Close readings of classic slave narratives, along with some neo-slave narratives--including The Conjure Woman (1899), Kindred (1979), Dessa Rose (1986), and The Good Lord Bird (2013)--furnish proof that African Americans have preserved their dignity and elevated their status through ingenious applications of improvisation. Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts establishes as well that a dim view of African Americans, propagated by black bondage, bears a resemblance to sexual discrimination, which prompts female targets of its gaze to practice dissembling.
CN  - PS374.B635
SN  - 143848948X
SN  - 9781438489483
KW  - American fiction : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - African American women authors : 20th century : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - African American authors : 20th century : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - American fiction : African American authors : 20th century.
KW  - African Americans in literature.
KW  - Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
KW  - Role playing in literature.
KW  - Race relations in literature.
KW  - Slavery in literature.
KW  - Roman américain : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Roman américain : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Écrivaines noires américaines : 20e siècle : Critique et interprétation.
KW  - Écrivains noirs américains : 20e siècle : Critique et interprétation.
KW  - Roman américain : Auteurs noirs américains : 20e siècle.
KW  - Noirs américains dans la littérature.
KW  - Stéréotypes dans la littérature.
KW  - Jeu de rôle dans la littérature.
KW  - Relations raciales dans la littérature.
KW  - Esclavage dans la littérature.
KW  - African American.
KW  - African American Studies.
KW  - Ethnic Studies.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE.
KW  - Gender Studies.
KW  - Slavery.
KW  - American.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM.
ER  -