04051nam 2200745 450 991078456060332120230331005309.00-19-972916-61-280-52423-51-4237-6420-X1-60129-743-2(CKB)1000000000363394(EBL)272562(OCoLC)826492022(SSID)ssj0000234031(PQKBManifestationID)12075811(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000234031(PQKBWorkID)10237278(PQKB)10909868(MiAaPQ)EBC272562(Au-PeEL)EBL272562(CaPaEBR)ebr11303243(CaONFJC)MIL52423(EXLCZ)99100000000036339420161205h19871987 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReconstructing womanhood the emergence of the Afro-American woman novelist /Hazel V. CarbyNew York, New York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1987.©19871 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-506071-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""1 ""Woman's Era"": Rethinking Black Feminist Theory""; ""2 Slave and Mistress: Ideologies of Womanhood under Slavery""; ""3 ""Hear My Voice, Ye Careless Daughters"": Narratives of Slave and Free Women before Emancipation""; ""4 ""Of Lasting Service for the Race"": The Work of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper""; ""5 ""In the Quiet, Undisputed Dignity of My Womanhood"": Black Feminist Thought after Emancipation""; ""6 ""Of What Use Is Fiction?"": Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins""; ""7 ""All the Fire and Romance"": The Magazine Fiction of Pauline Hopkins""""8 The Quicksands of Representation: Rethinking Black Cultural Politics""""Notes""; ""Bibliography of Texts by Black Women Authors""; ""General Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, andreassessing the uses of fiction in American culture. Carby revises the history of the period of Jim Crow and Booker T. Washington, depicting a time of intense cultural and political activity by such black women writers as Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and PaulineHopkins.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismFeminist fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismAfrican American women in literatureFeminism and literatureUnited StatesWomen and literatureUnited StatesAfrican American womenIntellectual lifeAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Feminist fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.African American women in literature.Feminism and literatureWomen and literatureAfrican American womenIntellectual life.813.4099287Carby Hazel V.892213MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784560603321Reconstructing womanhood3708321UNINA