03548nam 2200793Ia 450 991045894220332120200520144314.01-280-52608-40-19-536080-X1-4294-0557-0(CKB)1000000000401250(EBL)271327(OCoLC)191930312(SSID)ssj0000140821(PQKBManifestationID)11151300(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140821(PQKBWorkID)10055519(PQKB)11351105(MiAaPQ)EBC271327(Au-PeEL)EBL271327(CaPaEBR)ebr10142139(CaONFJC)MIL52608(OCoLC)935260396(EXLCZ)99100000000040125019911216d1992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDomestic allegories of political desire[electronic resource] the Black heroine's text at the turn of the century /Claudia TateNew York Oxford University Press19921 online resource (313 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-507389-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-290) and index.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; NotesSelected BibliographyIndexThis 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.Domestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesAfrican American womenIntellectual lifeAfrican American women in literatureHeroines in literatureMarriage in literatureDesire in literatureAllegoryElectronic books.Domestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureAfrican American womenIntellectual life.African American women in literature.Heroines in literature.Marriage in literature.Desire in literature.Allegory.813.009/352042Tate Claudia676400MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458942203321Domestic allegories of political desire1286667UNINA