Afro-Caribbean Women&#039;s Writing and Early American Literature

LaToya Jefferson-James

doi:10.5771/9781793606686

Summary

Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several literary genres and geographies, and introduces Black women writers of the Caribbean to some American audiences. It sheds light on lesser-discussed Black women playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance and re-evaluates the turn-of-the century concept, Noble Womanhood in light of the Cult of Domesticity.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-0667-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-0668-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 222
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Preface: The Work of Black Women Writing Communities No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Notes No access
2. Bibliography No access
1. The Cult of Domesticity and Black Women No access
2. Ida B. Wells, “The Brilliant Iola,” Takes on the Cult of Domesticity No access
3. Gertrude Mossell, or Mrs. N. F. Mossell, and Nobler Womanhood No access
4. Victoria Earle Matthews, African American Women, and the Great Awakening No access
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1. To Live and Die No access
2. Questioning Pride No access
3. Structure No access
4. Conclusion No access
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1. Race, Gender, and the Dramatic Arts No access
2. Intra-Racial Relation through Madness No access
3. Blackness Madness and Interracial Violation No access
4. Conclusion No access
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1. Hurston’s Self-Portrait No access
2. Reading Dust Tracks on a Road as Literacy Narrative No access
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1. From Feminism Historically and Internationally to Caribbean Frames No access
2. Occupying Female Space within Space Opera Subgenre in Karen Lord’s Novels No access
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1. Personal and Political Black Feminist Narratives No access
2. The Historians: Writing Black Feminist Space No access
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1. Teaching Morrison’s by Beginning and the Beginning No access
2. Morrison and the Forgotten Civil Rights Movement of America’s Industrial North No access
3. Hurston’s Literature as Bridge No access
4. Concluding the Beginning? No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 213 - 218
About the Contributors No access Pages 219 - 222