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Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the domestic in Black American literature with a new afterword bringing her analysis into the present.

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There are no Dilseys here. If white authors had the luxury to canonize long-suffering Blacks, the Black author has had a more complex and more painful relation to the subject. One cannot but wince to learn how many of these authors worked as maids, sometimes even after they had achieved a degree of literary success." - The New York Times Book Review

From Mammies to Militants

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      Publisher: University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/18/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817322038, 978-0817322038
      ISBN10: 0817322035

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the domestic in Black American literature with a new afterword bringing her analysis into the present.

      Trade Review
      There are no Dilseys here. If white authors had the luxury to canonize long-suffering Blacks, the Black author has had a more complex and more painful relation to the subject. One cannot but wince to learn how many of these authors worked as maids, sometimes even after they had achieved a degree of literary success." - The New York Times Book Review

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