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.
| ISBN: | 9780195060713 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 1990 |
| Author: | Hazel V Carby |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 223 pages |
| Genres: |
Gender studies: women and girls Ethnic studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |
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.
Reconstructing Womanhood features in the following genres: Gender studies: women and girls, Ethnic studies, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Reconstructing Womanhood was written by Hazel V Carby and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP USA
Reconstructing Womanhood has 223 pages
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