Activist sentiments : reading Black women in the nineteenth century

著者

• Foreman, P. Gabrielle (Pier Gabrielle)

書誌事項

Activist sentiments : reading Black women in the nineteenth century

P. Gabrielle Foreman

（The new Black studies）

University of Illinois Press, c2009

• : cloth
• : pbk.

注記

Includes index

Bibliography: p. [221]-240

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

Acknowledgments ix A Note on Language xv Introduction 1 1. The Politics of Sex and Representation in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 19 Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe, Abuser, Victim, Ally, Foe? 21 Confession and Commodities, Silence and Sale 24 Sexual Truth, Testimony, and Tyranny 29 Flint, Sands, and Willis: South to North, Daddies to Dandies 33 Aunt Martha's Mask 36 2. Naming Our Nig's Multivalent Mothers 43 Extended Family: Aunties' Place and Property 51 Ma' Nig and Maternal Abandonment 57 Multivalent Mulattas and Legal Racing 60 (Un)Trustworthy Narrators and Multiple Starts 65 3. Reading White Slavery, Sexuality, and Embedded History in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy 73 Cultural Literacy, Legible Transcripts, and Reading "Aright" in the 1890s 76 Forced Prostitution, Rape, and White Slavery's Double Meanings 80 Ida B. Wells, Frances Harper, and the Two Iolas 90 Martin Delany, Lucy A. Delaney, and Iola's Lucille Delany 96 Petitioning Science, or Martin Delany and Dr. Frank, George and Lewis Latimer 102 4. Reading/Photographs: Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins's Four Girls at Cottage City, Victoria Earle Matthews, and the Woman's Era 113 Reading/Photographs 116 Women's Clubs and Literary Critique 126 The Woman's Era Photographic Bylines 129 Victoria Earle and Vera Earle 132 Optic History 137 5. Home Protection, Literary Aggression, and Religious Defense in the Life and Writings of Amelia E. Johnson 138 Public Standing and Civic Action of Amelia E. Johnson 141 Women, the Law, and Baltimore's Brotherhood of Liberty 148 Racial Inequalities, or Snatching the Whip and Switching the Script 157 Temperance and Bad Parental Temperaments 164 Coda: On Burials and Exhumations 173 Notes 179 Bibliography 221 Index 241

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB02561214
• ISBN:
  • 9780252034749
  • 9780252076640
• LCCN: 2008055461
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Urbana
• ページ数/冊数: xiv, 255 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PS153.N5
  • DC22 : 810.9/928708996073
• 件名:
  • LCSH : American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : African American women -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
  • LCSH : African American women authors
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA71074441