Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst

During the Harlem Renaissance, competing rhetorics of racial uplift centered upon concerns regarding class identification and the process of acculturation into American society. This book demonstrates how the practice of motherhood and the organization of household relations operated to address the pressing issues facing the black community of the early twentieth century. An exploration of such literary constructs as the tragic mulatto, the passing phenomenon, and the mammy result in a revitalized understanding of how the influences of racial intolerance, sexual oppression, and class ideology combined to provoke a model of resistant black maternity in the early modern era.

Info autore

The Author: Licia Morrow Calloway is Assistant Professor of English at The Citadel, specializing in African American literary and cultural studies. She received her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. She contributed several articles to The Cambridge Guide to Women¿s Writing in English (1999).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Licia Morrow Calloway
• Con la collaborazione di: Yoshinobu Hakutani (Editore)
• Editore: Peter Lang
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.08.2003
• EAN: 9780820451596
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-5159-6
• Pagine: 176
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 10 mm x 230 mm
• Peso: 298 g
• Serie: Modern American Literature
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata