Reconstructing womanhood: the emergence of the Afro-American woman novelist
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1. Verfasser: Carby, Hazel V. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1987
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"Bibliography of texts by Black women authors": p. 199-203
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-216) and index
This cultural history of nineteenth-century narratives of slave and free women traces the ways in which these writings began to resist dominant literary conventions and to offer the first alternative versions of black womanhood. Covering the period between the 1850s and the turn of the century, it depicts an era of intense cultural and political activity when Afro-American women first began to emerge as novelists. Why black women wrote novels, and what they thought novels could do, are among the questions discussed
Hear my voice, ye careless daughters -- Slave and mistress -- Of lasting service for the race -- In the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood -- Of what use is fiction? -- All the fire and romance -- The quicksands of representation
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ISBN:1280524235
142376420X
9781280524233
9781423764205

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