Love and Marriage in Early African America

Informationen zum Autor FRANCES SMITH FOSTER is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies and Chair of the English Department at Emory University. Her previous publications include Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Ante-Bellum Slave Narrative, and Written By Herself: Literary Production by African American Women Writers, 1746-1892. Professor Foster has edited or co-edited numerous volumes, including, most notably, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Klappentext For example! "Patrick Brown's First Love" is a radical alternative to Frederick Douglass' "The Heroic Slave!" and Thomas Detter's "The Octoroon" replaces the traditionally tragic mulatto trope with a female protagonist who shocks and awes. "Love and Marriage in Early African America" also changes our ideas about the relationship between religion and politics in early African America by featuring texts from the Afro-Protestant press; that is! the publishing organizations! writers! and reading groups under the direct auspices of! or publicly associated with! Afro-Protestant churches.

Product details

• Assisted by: Frances Foster (Editor), Frances Smith Foster (Editor)
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2008
• EAN: 9781555536770
• ISBN: 978-1-55553-677-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Northeastern Library of Black; Northeastern Library of Black; New England Library of Black L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries