Sherita L Johnson

Black Women in New South Literature and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans in the South. Sherita L. Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the "South" and what "southernness" mean without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780415846288
• ISBN-10: 0415846285
• Artikelnr.: 37086535

Autorenporträt

Sherita L. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. She has published several encyclopedia articles about African American literature and culture. She served as a guest editor for a special issue of The Southern Quarterly, "'My Southern Home': The Life and Literature of 19th Century Southern Black Writers."

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'In the Sunny South': Reconstructing Frances Harper as
Southern 2. Conjuring a New South: Black Women Radicals in the Works of
Charles Chesnutt and George Washington Cable 3. New South, New Negro: Anna
Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South 4. 'The South Is Our Home': Cultural
Narratives of Place and Displacement. Epilogue: Voices, Bodies, and Texts:
Making the Black Woman Visible in New South Literature and Culture