Inventing black women : African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000 / Ajuan Maria Mance.

Author/creator Mance, Ajuan Maria
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2007.
Descriptionx, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
American poetry--African American authors. --History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States. --History. --19th century.
Women and literature--United States. --History. --20th century.
African American women--Intellectual life. --19th century.
African American women--Intellectual life. --20th century.
American poetry--Women authors. --History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Gender identity in literature.

Contents Invisible bodies, invisible work: nineteenth-century American womanhood and the pastoral of the American homescape -- A "sole and earnest endeavor": African American women's poetry in the late nineteenth century -- The black woman as object and symbol: African American women poets in the Harlem Renaissance -- Revolutionary dreams: African American women poets in the Black Arts movement -- Locating the Black female subject: late-twentieth-century African American women poets and the landscape of the body.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index.
LCCN 2006035355
ISBN9781572334922 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1572334924 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS310.B53 M36 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold