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 : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First paperback printing.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2008.

Summary:

The First Historical and Thematic Survey of African American women's poetry, Inventing Black Women examines the key developments that have shaped the growing body of poems by and about Black women over the nearly 125 years since the end of slavery and Reconstruction, as it offers incisive readings of individual works by important poets such as Alice B. Neal, Maggie Pogue Johnson, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Sonia Sanchez, Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, and many others.

Contents:

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

1. "Sole and earnest endeavor": African American women's poetry in the late nineteenth century

2. Black woman as object and symbol: African American women poets in the Harlem Renaissance

3. Revolutionary dreams: African American women poets in the Black Arts Movement

4. 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:

157233651X

9781572336513

OCLC:

294885257

Publisher Number:

99947545739