Stories of liberation from enslavement or oppression have become central to African American women's literature. Beginning with a discussion of black women freedom narratives as a literary genre, the author argues that these texts represent a discourse on civil rights that emerged earlier than the ideas of racial uplift that culminated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An examination of the collective free identity of black women and their relationships to the community focuses on education, individual progress, marriage and family, labor, intellectual commitments and community rebuilding projects.…mehr
Stories of liberation from enslavement or oppression have become central to African American women's literature. Beginning with a discussion of black women freedom narratives as a literary genre, the author argues that these texts represent a discourse on civil rights that emerged earlier than the ideas of racial uplift that culminated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An examination of the collective free identity of black women and their relationships to the community focuses on education, individual progress, marriage and family, labor, intellectual commitments and community rebuilding projects.
Janaka Bowman Lewis is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has published on Elizabeth Keckley and other African American women writers of the nineteenth century.
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Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Black Women and the Materiality of Freedom One. Women Writing Black: Literary Glimpses into African American History Two. Moving Free: Black Women's Bodies and Freedom Three. Elizabeth Keckley and Freedom's Labor Four. "Fiction"ing Freedom: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Novelistic Tradition Five. Reflections on Freedom, or Freedom Retold Epilogue: Freedom's Promise: Coming of Age Narratives in African America Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Black Women and the Materiality of Freedom One. Women Writing Black: Literary Glimpses into African American History Two. Moving Free: Black Women's Bodies and Freedom Three. Elizabeth Keckley and Freedom's Labor Four. "Fiction"ing Freedom: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Novelistic Tradition Five. Reflections on Freedom, or Freedom Retold Epilogue: Freedom's Promise: Coming of Age Narratives in African America Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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