Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist by Hazel V. Carby

Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

Hazel V. Carby

240 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative slow-paced

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A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the lit...

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