Hazeley Family

Klappentext When first published by the American Baptist Publication Society in 1894! The Hazeley Family was advertised as `a book that should be in every Sunday-school library'. The novel is typical of the `angel of the home' romances written by American women in the later nineteenth century. It tells how the moral fibre of Flora Hazeley keeps her family together - a constant concern in Afro-American literature and life. The characters are `non-racial'! one of thetactics that many black writers used to overcome the racial sterotypes demanded by the white establishment. Zusammenfassung When first published by the American Baptist Publication Society in 1894, The Hazeley Family was advertised as `a book that should be in every Sunday-school library'. The novel is typical of the `angel of the home' romances written by American women in the later nineteenth century. It tells how the moral fibre of Flora Hazeley keeps her family together - a constant concern in Afro-American literature and life. The characters are `non-racial', one of the tactics that many black writers used to overcome the racial sterotypes demanded by the white establishment.

Product details

• Authors: A. E. Johnson, Amelia A. Johnson, Mrs A. E. Johnson
• Assisted by: Barbara Christian (Illustration)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.1988
• EAN: 9780195052572
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505257-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies