Reconstructing womanhood : the emergence of the Afro-American woman novelist / Hazel V. Carby.

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Carby, Hazel V

Material type: Text

TextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.Description: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

142376420X
9781423764205
1280524235
9781280524233
9786610524235
6610524238

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reconstructing womanhood.DDC classification:

813/.4/099287 22

LOC classification:

PS153.N5 C37 1987eb

Other classification:

18.06

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Contents:

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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Summary: 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 depicts an era of intense cultural and political activity when Afro-American women first began to emerge as novelists. Why black women wrote novels, and what they thought novels could do, are among the questions discussed.

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"Bibliography of texts by Black women authors": pages 199-203.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.

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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 depicts an era of intense cultural and political activity when Afro-American women first began to emerge as novelists. Why black women wrote novels, and what they thought novels could do, are among the questions discussed.

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