{"product_id":"afro-caribbean-womens-writing-and-early-american-literature-9781793606679","title":"Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfro-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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: The Work of Black Women Writing Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Continued Relevance of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaToya Jefferson-James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Doing the Work of ‘Nobler Womanhood:’ Ida B. Wells-Barnett, N.F. Mossell, and Victoria Earle Matthews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaToya Jefferson-James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Yours for Humanity: An Examination of the Life and Work of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1856-1930)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVerner Mitchell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Plagiarizing Blackness: Racial Performances and Passing in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTajanae Barnes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: New Nation, New Migration and New Negro: A Reading of Aftermath, Rachel, and Environment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShubhanku Kochar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: When Madness Makes Sense in Early Black Women’s Drama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegis Fox\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road as Literacy Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaToya Jefferson-James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Karen Lord: Situating the Caribbean Female Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacinth Howard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: A Retrospective on the Literary Influence of Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack, Monkey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlison D. Ligon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: A Laying on of Hands: Healing the Diasporic Body in Colonized Spaces in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce White\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Authorizing Discourse: Black Feminist Theorizing in Michelle Cliff’s Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandria Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: So Eager to Bloom: Reframing Images of Adolescent Protagonists in Edwidge Danticat’s Behind the Mountains and Untwine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlison D. Ligon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Beginning at the Beginning: Teaching Morrison through Stewart and Hurston through Marson and Conde\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042618605911,"sku":"9781793606679","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/afro-caribbean-womens-writing-and-early-american-literature-9781793606679","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}