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• Winner of <DIV>Selected as one of two winners of the Robert K. Martin Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS), 20 2012
• Winner of <DIV>Selected as one of two winners of the Robert K. Martin Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS), 2012.</DIV> 2012

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Tess Chakkalakal advances important scholarship on African American marriage during and immediately following the slave era. Her readings of canonical authors are provocative and controversial, but grounded well enough to enliven conversations about these writers and their times. --Frances Smith Foster, author of 'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America<p>

"""Tess Chakkalakal advances important scholarship on African American marriage during and immediately following the slave era. Her readings of canonical authors are provocative and controversial, but grounded well enough to enliven conversations about these writers and their times."" Frances Smith Foster, author of 'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America ""Exploring the paradox represented by slave marriage in nineteenth-century American fiction, Novel Bondage deftly revises our reading of canonical works, offering a clearer understanding of these texts as direct participants in critiquing marriage as a legal institution."" Kenneth W. Warren, author of What Was African American Literature?"

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Tess Chakkalakal is an assistant professor of Africana studies and English at Bowdoin College.

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