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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458942203321

Autore

Tate Claudia

Titolo

Domestic allegories of political desire [[electronic resource] ] : the Black heroine's text at the turn of the century / / Claudia Tate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1992

ISBN

1-280-52608-4

0-19-536080-X

1-4294-0557-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

813.009/352042

Soggetti

Domestic fiction, American - History and criticism

American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Politics and literature - United States

African American women - Intellectual life

African American women in literature

Heroines in literature

Marriage in literature

Desire in literature

Allegory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: A Highway through the Wilderness of Post-Reconstruction; 1. Maternal Discourses as Antebellum Social Protest; 2. Legacies of Intersecting Cultural Conventions; 3. To Vote and to Marry: Locating a Gendered and Historicized Model of Interpretation; 4. Allegories of Gender and Class as Discourses of Political Desire; 5. Sexual Discourses of Political Reform of the Post-Reconstruction Era; 6. Revising the Patriarchal Texts of Husband and Wife in Real and Fictive Worlds; 7. From Domestic Happiness to Racial Despair; 8. Domestic Tragedy as Racial Protest; Notes

Selected BibliographyIndex



Sommario/riassunto

This study aims to uncover the political significance of black women's domestic fiction in the post-Reconstruction period. The author's cultural analysis draws upon a range of texts including works by Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, Katherine Tillman and Zora Neale.