LEADER 04435nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910820629703321 005 20240410114519.0 010 0 $a019536080X 010 0 $a9780195360806 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7035172 035 $a(CKB)24235108000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC271327 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL271327 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142139 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52608 035 $a(OCoLC)935260396 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235108000041 100 $a19911216d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDomestic allegories of political desire$b[electronic resource] $ethe Black heroine's text at the turn of the century /$fClaudia Tate 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1992 215 $ax, 302 p. $cill 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-290) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aDomestic fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life 606 $aAfrican American women in literature 606 $aHeroines in literature 606 $aMarriage in literature 606 $aDesire in literature 606 $aAllegory 615 0$aDomestic fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature 615 0$aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAfrican American women in literature. 615 0$aHeroines in literature. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 615 0$aDesire in literature. 615 0$aAllegory. 676 $a813.009/352042 700 $aTate$b Claudia$0676400 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910820629703321 996 $aDomestic allegories of political desire$91286667 997 $aUNINA