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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist
Reconstructing Womanhood The Emergence of the AfroAmerican Woman Novelist
Author: Hazel V. Carby
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 depicts an era of intense cultural and political...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195041644
ISBN-10: 019504164X
Publication Date: 12/31/1987
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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