'In the sunny South': reconstructing Frances Harper as Southern -- Conjuring a new South: Black women radicals in the works of Charles Chesnutt and George Washington Cable -- New South, new Negro: Anna Julia Cooper's A voice from the South -- 'The South is our home': cultural narratives of place and displacement -- Epilogue: Voices, bodies, and texts: making the Black woman visible in new South literature and culture
Summary
This book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans in the South. Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the "South" and what "southernness" mean without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region
Notes
Title from PDF title page (viewed October 1, 2009)
