Literacy in a long blues note : Black women's literature and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Coretta M. Pittman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pittman, Coretta M., author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

African American women authors--History and criticism.

African American women authors.

Race in literature.

Blues (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (unpaged).

Other Title:

Black women's literature and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]

Contents:

Preface: The shifting tides: transformational, transactional, and specular literacy practices

Literacy, the woman's era, and the literary imagination: Anna Julia Cooper and Victoria Earle Matthews

Literacy and education: Katherine D. C. Tillman and Pauline E. Hopkins

Literacy in the new negro era: Angelina Weld Grimké and the classic blues pioneers Mamie Smith, Lucille Hegamin, and Alberta Hunter

Literacy, literature, and classic blues: Jessie Redmon Fauset and Gertrude "Ma" Rainey

Literacy, the folk, and classic blues: Zora Neale Hurston and Victoria Spivey

Coda: Spectacular women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 10, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Pittman, Coretta M. Literacy in a long blues note

ISBN:

9781496843081

1496843088

9781496843050

1496843053

9781496843067

1496843061

9781496843074

149684307X

Publisher Number:

40031454263

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Restricted for use by site license.