Inventing black women : African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000 / Ajuan Maria Mance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mance, Ajuan Maria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

American poetry--African American authors.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women.

United States.

History.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

African American women--Intellectual life--19th century.

African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.

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

American poetry--Women authors.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 202 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2007]

Contents:

Invisible bodies, invisible work: nineteenth-century American womanhood and the pastoral of the American homescape

A "sole and earnest endeavor": African American women's poetry in the late nineteenth century

The black woman as object and symbol: African American women poets in the Harlem Renaissance

Revolutionary dreams: African American women poets in the Black Arts movement

Locating the Black female subject: late-twentieth-century African American women poets and the landscape of the body.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-194) and index.

ISBN:

9781572334922

1572334924

OCLC:

74492099