Black women in new South literature and culture /

This book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans in the South. Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the "South" and what "southernness" mean without looking at how black women have contributed to and conteste...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnson, Sherita L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
Subjects:
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African American women in literature
American literature
Southern States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 'In the sunny South': reconstructing Frances Harper as Southern
  • Conjuring a new South: Black women radicals in the works of Charles Chesnutt and George Washington Cable
  • New South, new Negro: Anna Julia Cooper's A voice from the South
  • '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.

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