04435nam 2200661Ia 450 991082062970332120240410114519.0019536080X9780195360806(MiAaPQ)EBC7035172(CKB)24235108000041(MiAaPQ)EBC271327(Au-PeEL)EBL271327(CaPaEBR)ebr10142139(CaONFJC)MIL52608(OCoLC)935260396(EXLCZ)992423510800004119911216d1992 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDomestic allegories of political desire[electronic resource] the Black heroine's text at the turn of the century /Claudia Tate1st ed.New York Oxford University Press1992x, 302 p. illIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-290) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: A Highway through the Wilderness of Post-Reconstruction -- 1. Maternal Discourses as Antebellum Social Protest -- The Kitchen Politics of Abolitionism -- Politicizing the Black Mother's Voice -- 2. Legacies of Intersecting Cultural Conventions -- Antebellum Gender Constructions of the Black Female -- Gentility, Color, and Social Mobility -- The Pedagogy of Sentimental Literature -- Male and Female Generic Narratives of Racial Protest -- 3. To Vote and to Marry: Locating a Gendered and Historicized Model of Interpretation -- A Modern Paradigm: Antagonistic Discourses of Marriage and Freedom -- Twentieth-Century Critical Imperatives -- The Aesthetic of Race Literature -- Interpretative Model: Domestic Desire as Political Discourse -- 4. Allegories of Gender and Class as Discourses of Political Desire -- The Intended Readers of Black Women's Post-Reconstruction Domestic Novels -- The Politics of Desire -- Domestic Narrative as Racial Discourse -- The Heroine as Agent of Racial Desire -- 5. Sexual Discourses of Political Reform of the Post-Reconstruction Era -- (Black) Manhood and Womanhood as Racial and Political Signifiers of Citizenship -- Literary Interventionism -- The Domestic Heroine and Black Bourgeois Individuation -- Centering the Heroine's Virtue -- 6. Revising the Patriarchal Texts of Husband and Wife in Real and Fictive Worlds -- Gender Rites and the Higher Education of Black Women -- Gender Rites and Fictive Texts -- Love as a Strategy for Revising Spousal Roles -- 7. From Domestic Happiness to Racial Despair -- The Heroine's Work -- Black Heroines, the Racial Discourse, Formula Novels, and the Test of True Love -- 8. Domestic Tragedy as Racial Protest -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.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.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 literatureAllegoryDomestic 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 Claudia676400MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910820629703321Domestic allegories of political desire1286667UNINA