Reconstructing womanhood : the emergence of the Afro-American woman novelist /

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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 d...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Carby, Hazel V.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
Collection:OUP E-Books.
Sujets:
1800-1899
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 > Intellectual life.
Feminism and literature > United States.
Women and literature > United States.
African American women in literature.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis.
Noires américaines dans la littérature.
Féminisme et littérature > États-Unis.
Noires américaines > Vie intellectuelle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > Women authors.
American fiction.
American fiction > African American authors.
American fiction > Women authors.
Feminism and literature.
Feminist fiction, American.
Women and literature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Fiction in English > American black women writers, 1891-1965 - Critical studies
English fiction > By > Black women
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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