Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Bryant, Jacqueline K., author.

Title The foremother figure in early black women's literature : clothed in my right mind / Jacqueline K. Bryant
Published London : Routledge, 2019

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge library editions. African American literature ; volume 1
Routledge library editions. African American literature ; volume 1
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Mammy in Early White Female Writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, and Kate Chopin; Chapter 3. Rhetoric of Freedom: Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself; Chapter 4. Grandmothers, Mothers, and Acquaintances: The Novels of Frances E.W. Harper; Chapter 5. Aunt Henny and Aunt Hannah in The Novels of Pauline Hopkins; Chapter 6. Finding the Foremother in Fauset
Chapter 7. Conclusion: The Legacy of the ForemotherBibliography; Index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 6, 2018)
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- United States -- History
African American women -- Intellectual life
African American families in literature.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Older women in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Families in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
African American families in literature
African American women in literature
African American women -- Intellectual life
African Americans in literature
American fiction -- African American authors
American fiction -- Women authors
Domestic fiction, American
Families in literature
Mothers in literature
Older women in literature
Women and literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429752919
0429752911
9780429752926
042975292X
9780429752902
0429752903
9780429423741
0429423748