Written by herself : literary production by African American women, 1746-1892 / Frances Smith Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Frances Smith.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

American literature--Women authors.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 206 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993.

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive cultural of history of literature by African American women prior to the Twentieth century. Beginning with the earliest extant writings, Frances Smith Foster her textual analysis within the writers' social and literary contexts.

Contents:

Testing and Testifying: The Word, the Other, and African American Women Writers

"Sometimes by Simile, a Victory's Won": Lucy Terry Prince and Phillis Wheatley

Equal Men but True Women: The Post-Revolution Literature

"Great Liberty in the Gospel": Jarena Lee's Religious Experiences, Life, and Journal

Gendered Writing for Promiscuous Audiences: African American Women's Literature in the Antebellum Period

Writing across the Color Line: Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Romance and Scandal in a Postbellum Slave Narrative: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes

Doers of the Word: The Reconsstruction Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Confrontation and Community in Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert's The House of Bondage

"A Woman Question and a Race Problem: The Black Woman's Era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-199) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is paperback edition with "A Midland Book MB 786" printed on cover.

ISBN:

0253324092

025320786X

OCLC:

26216946