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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

By Hazel V. Carby

Book information

Year
1989
ISBN
0195060717, 9780195060713, 9781423764205
Open Library ID
OL22229852M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (12024850 bytes)
Pages
240\232
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, and reassessing the uses of fiction in American culture. Carby revises the history of the period of Jim Crow and Booker T. Washington, depicting a time of intense cultural and political activity by such black women writers as Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Hopkins.

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