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Reconstructing womanhood : the emergence of the Afro-American woman novelist / / Hazel V. Carby



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Autore: Carby Hazel V. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reconstructing womanhood : the emergence of the Afro-American woman novelist / / Hazel V. Carby Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1987
©1987
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina: 813.4099287
Soggetto topico: American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Feminist fiction, American - History and criticism
African American women in literature
Feminism and literature - United States
Women and literature - United States
African American women - Intellectual life
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: ""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""
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Reconstructing womanhood  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-972916-6
1-280-52423-5
1-4237-6420-X
1-60129-743-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784560603321
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