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

• Autore: Johnson Sherita L.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/3522
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Southern States - History and criticism; African American women in literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Black women in new South literature and culture
• ISBN: 1-135-24445-6; 1-135-24446-4; 1-282-25712-9; 9786612257124; 0-203-86785-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816739303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))