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Race and time : American women's poetics from antislavery to racial modernity /

Race and Time urges our attention to women's poetry in considering the cultural history of race. Building on close readings of well known and less familiar poets-including Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Sarah Louisa Forten, Hannah Flagg Gould, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Piatt, Mary Eliza...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gray, Janet Sinclair, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Race and Time urges our attention to women's poetry in considering the cultural history of race. Building on close readings of well known and less familiar poets-including Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Sarah Louisa Forten, Hannah Flagg Gould, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Piatt, Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert, Sarah Josepha Hale, Eliza Follen, and Mary Mapes Dodge-Gray traces tensions in women's literary culture from the era of abolitionism to the rise of the Plantation tradition. She devotes a chapter to children's verse, arguing that racial stereotypes work as "nonsense" that masks conflicts
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-319) and index.
ISBN:158729480X
9781587294808