Back To Results
Showing Item 1 of 3
Preferred library: Hudson's Hope Public Library?

Next ►

Reconstructing womanhood : the emergence of the Afro-American woman novelist Cover Image

E-book

Reconstructing womanhood : the emergence of the Afro-American woman novelist

Summary: This cultural history of nineteenth-century narratives of slave and free women traces the ways in which these writings began to resist dominant literary conventions and to offer the first alternative versions of black womanhood. Covering the period between the 1850s and the turn of the century, it depicts an era of intense cultural and political activity when Afro-American women first began to emerge as novelists. Why black women wrote novels, and what they thought novels could do, are among the questions discussed.

Record details

ISBN: 6610524238
ISBN: 9786610524235
ISBN: 9781280524233
ISBN: 1280524235
ISBN: 9781423764205
ISBN: 142376420X
Physical Description: 1 online resource (223 pages)
remote
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index. "Bibliography of texts by Black women authors": pages 199-203.
Formatted Contents Note:	Hear my voice, ye careless daughters -- Slave and mistress -- Of lasting service for the race -- In the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood -- Of what use is fiction? -- All the fire and romance -- The quicksands of representation.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.