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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816739303321

Autore

Johnson Sherita L.

Titolo

Black women in new South literature and culture / / Sherita L. Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-24445-6

1-135-24446-4

1-282-25712-9

9786612257124

0-203-86785-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Collana

Studies in American popular history and culture

Disciplina

810.9/3522

Soggetti

American literature - Southern States - History and criticism

African American women in literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 'In the Sunny South': Reconstructing Frances Harper as Southern; 2 Conjuring a New South: Black Women Radicals in the Works of Charles Chesnutt and George Washington Cable; 3 New South, New Negro: Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South; 4 'The South Is Our Home': Cultural Narratives of Place and Displacement; Epilogue: Voices, Bodies, and Texts: Making the Black Woman Visible in New South Literature and Culture; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using the ""the Negro Problem"" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in American Studies and in American literary history, Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the ""South"" and what ""southernness"" mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region. Johnson challen