Activist Sentiments - Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor P. Gabrielle Foreman is a professor of English and American studies at Occidental College. She is the author of multiple articles and the coeditor of Harriet E. Wilson's "Our Nig; or! Sketches from the Life of a Free Black." Klappentext Focuses on women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. This book offers against-the-grain readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs! Harriet Wilson! Frances E W Harper! Victoria Earle Matthews and Amelia E Johnson. Zusammenfassung Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform! sentiment and their various readerships Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; A Note on Language; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Politics of Sex and Representation in Harriet; Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Eenie! Meenie! Minie! Moe! Abuser! Victim! Ally! Foe?; Confession and Commodities;

Product details

• Authors: P. Gabrielle Foreman
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2009
• EAN: 9780252034749
• ISBN: 978-0-252-03474-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: New Black Studies Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies