Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature

doi:10.5771/9781793606686

Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature

1. Edition 2022

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doi.org/10.5771/9781793606686
ISBN print: 978-1-7936-0667-9
ISBN online: 978-1-7936-0668-6
Lexington, Lanham Lexington, Lanham

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Abstract

Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several literary genres and geographies, and introduces Black women writers of the Caribbean to some American audiences. It sheds light on lesser-discussed Black women playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance and re-evaluates the turn-of-the century concept, Noble Womanhood in light of the Cult of Domesticity.

Schlagworte

Civil Rights Movement Great Migration narratives Harlem Renaissance Studies Black Caribbean writers young adult narratives

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i–xiv Preface i–xiv
1–10 Introduction 1–10
- Notes
- Bibliography
11–32 Chapter 1: Doing the Work of “Nobler Womanhood”: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, N. F. Mossell, and Victoria Earle Matthews 11–32
33–48 Chapter 2: Yours for Humanity: An Examination of the Life and Work of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1856–1930) 33–48
- Notes
- Bibliography
49–64 Chapter 3: Plagiarizing Blackness: Racial Performances and Passing in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted 49–64
65–80 Chapter 4: New Nation, New Migration, and New Negro: A Reading of Aftermath, Rachel, and Environment 65–80
- Works Cited
81–98 Chapter 5: When Madness Makes Sense in Early Black Women’s Drama 81–98
99–116 Chapter 6: Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road as Literacy Narrative 99–116
117–138 Chapter 7: Karen Lord: Situating the Caribbean Female Space 117–138
139–144 Chapter 8: A Retrospective on the Literary Influence of Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack, Monkey 139–144
- Works Cited
145–160 Chapter 9: A Laying on of Hands: Healing the Diasporic Body in Colonized Spaces in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John 145–160
- Notes
- Works Cited
161–180 Chapter 10: Authoring Discourse: Black Feminist Theorizing in Michelle Cliff’s Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise 161–180
181–190 Chapter 11: So Eager to Bloom: Reframing Images of Adolescent Protagonists in Edwidge Danticat’s Behind the Mountains and Untwine 181–190
- Works Cited
191–212 Conclusion 191–212
213–218 Index 213–218
219–222 About the Contributors 219–222

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