Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
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A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, and reassessing the uses of fiction in American culture. Carby revises the history of the period of Jim Crow and Booker T. Washington, depicting a time of intense cultural...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195060717
ISBN13:9780195060713
Release Date:July 1989
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"
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