Reconstructing Womanhood: Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist - Hardcover

Carby, Hazel V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019504164X ISBN 13: 9780195041644

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1987

Synopsis

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. Students of American literature and of black history; women's studies.

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Review:

The best book I have read on this topic. Clear, well-researched, and well-written. Clarifies huge historical, political, and cultural issues. (Dan Fineman, Occidental College)

From the Back Cover:

Reconstructing Womanhood explores the ways in which black women writers represented the prevailing ideological debates of their times.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 019504164X
• ISBN 13: 9780195041644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232