Freedom Narratives of African American Women - A Study of 19th Century Writings

Stories of liberation from enslavement or oppression have become central to African American women's literature. Beginning with a discussion of black women freedom narratives as a literary genre, the author argues that these texts represent a discourse on civil rights that emerged earlier than the ideas of racial uplift that culminated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An examination of the collective free identity of black women and their relationships to the community focuses on education, individual progress, marriage and family, labor, intellectual commitments and community rebuilding projects.

About the author

Janaka Bowman Lewis is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has published on Elizabeth Keckley and other African American women writers of the nineteenth century. Currently, she researches Black girlhood and material culture.

Product details

• Authors: Janaka Bowman Lewis
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2017
• EAN: 9781476667782
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-6778-2
• No. of pages: 182
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 240 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; USA, Underground Railroad, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Literature: history and criticism, Black & Asian Studies, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people