Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 - Brossura

Foster, Frances Smith

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ISBN 10: 025320786X ISBN 13: 9780253207869

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

I am very impressed by Frances Smith Foster's. Written by Herself, a work of thorough scholarship, judicious criticism, and original insights...This book will confirm her leadership among those working in this ever-expanding field. William L. Andrews Written by Herself is the first comprehensive cultural history of literature by African American women prior to the twentieth century. Beginning with the earliest extant writings, Frances Smith Foster frames her textual analyses within the writers social and literary contexts. These works stem from literary traditions and cultural interventions received, invented, or modified by writers who defied the accepted literary prerogatives of their race, gender, and class. Their literature was argument, designed to correct or to instruct an audience often ignorant about or even hostile to Black women. Adapting existing genres and literary techniques, these authors developed a form of literary signification and saw themselves as part of a continuing literary tradition. Foster begins with the oral histories of Alice, a slave born in Philadelphia in 1686. She continues with political activists Maria W. Stewart and Anna Julia Cooper, precursors of the African American women's literary tradition that included Lucy Terry Price, Phyllis Wheatley, Jarena Lee, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert.

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L'autore:

FRANCES SMITH FOSTER, Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, is the author of Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Ante-bellum Slave Narrative and editor of A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

This is the first comprehensive cultural of history of literature by African American women prior to the Twentieth century. Beginning with the earliest extant writings, Frances Smith Foster her textual analysis within the writers' social and literary contexts.

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• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 025320786X
• ISBN 13: 9780253207869
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224