Activist Sentiments : Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century Hardback
by P. Gabrielle Foreman
Part of the New Black Studies Series series
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Activist Sentiments takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity.
Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to the historical archive, this book offers against-the-grain readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Frances E.
W. Harper, Victoria Earle Matthews and Amelia E. Johnson. Part literary criticism and part cultural history, Activist Sentiments examines nineteenth-century social, political, and representational literacies and reading practices.
P. Gabrielle Foreman reveals how Black women's complex and confrontational commentary-often expressed directly in their journalistic prose and organizational involvement--emerges in their sentimental, and simultaneously political, literary production.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, 7 black & white photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:18/08/2009
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- ISBN:9780252034749
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, 7 black & white photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:18/08/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252034749
