Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature
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Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature

  1. 237 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature by LaToya Jefferson-James in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface: The Work of Black Women Writing Communities
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: Doing the Work of “Nobler Womanhood”: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, N. F. Mossell, and Victoria Earle Matthews
  10. Chapter 2: Yours for Humanity: An Examination of the Life and Work of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1856–1930)
  11. Chapter 3: Plagiarizing Blackness: Racial Performances and Passing in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted
  12. Chapter 4: New Nation, New Migration, and New Negro: A Reading of Aftermath, Rachel, and Environment
  13. Chapter 5: When Madness Makes Sense in Early Black Women’s Drama
  14. Chapter 6: Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road as Literacy Narrative
  15. Chapter 7: Karen Lord: Situating the Caribbean Female Space
  16. Chapter 8: A Retrospective on the Literary Influence of Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack, Monkey
  17. Chapter 9: A Laying on of Hands: Healing the Diasporic Body in Colonized Spaces in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
  18. Chapter 10: Authoring Discourse: Black Feminist Theorizing in Michelle Cliff’s Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise
  19. Chapter 11: So Eager to Bloom: Reframing Images of Adolescent Protagonists in Edwidge Danticat’s Behind the Mountains and Untwine
  20. Conclusion
  21. Index
  22. About the Contributors