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

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 d...

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Main Author:	Carby, Hazel V.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
Series:	OUP E-Books.
Subjects:	1800-1899 American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Feminist fiction, American > History and criticism. African American women > Intellectual life. Feminism and literature > United States. Women and literature > United States. African American women in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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