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Domestic allegories of political desire : the Black heroine's text at the turn of the century /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: A Highway through the Wilderness of Post-Reconstruction; 1. Maternal Discourses as Antebellum Social Protest; 2. Legacies of Intersecting Cultural Conventions; 3. To Vote and to Marry: Locating a Gendered and Historicized Model of Interpretation; 4. Allegories of Gender and Class as Discourses of Political Desire; 5. Sexual Discourses of Political Reform of the Post-Reconstruction Era; 6. Revising the Patriarchal Texts of Husband and Wife in Real and Fictive Worlds; 7. From Domestic Happiness to Racial Despair; 8. Domestic Tragedy as Racial Protest; Notes.