Reconstructing Womanhood
The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
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Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-80429-456-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, award-winning writer and scholar Hazel Carby 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 revisits the history of the period of Jim Crow and Booker T. Washington, revealing a time of intense cultural and political activity by black women writers such as Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Hopkins.
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A landmark contribution....[Carby] offers trenchant critical analyses of the writing of Harriet Jacobs, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Anna Julia Cooper, and Nella Larsen, among others; but she is primarily concerned with examining the cultural position of the black woman intellectual. A powerful instance of black feminist cultural history and literary theory, [this book] explores the ways in which black women writers represented the prevailing ideological debates of their times. * The Women's Review of Books *More details
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03/1990
Oxford University Press Inc
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Hazel V. Carby is the multi-award-winning author of Imperial Intimacies, and Cultures in Babylon. For three decades she taught at Yale University as the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and Professor of American Studies.