| Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century Contributor(s): Foreman, P. Gabrielle (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252076648 ISBN-13: 9780252076640 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $26.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 810.992 |
| LCCN: 2008055461 |
| Series: New Black Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.01 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Activist Sentiments takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to the historical archive, this book offers against-the-grain readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Victoria Earle Matthews and Amelia E. Johnson. Part literary criticism and part cultural history, Activist Sentiments examines nineteenth-century social, political, and representational literacies and reading practices. P. Gabrielle Foreman reveals how Black women's complex and confrontational commentary-often expressed directly in their journalistic prose and organizational involvement--emerges in their sentimental, and simultaneously political, literary production. |