Writing through Jane Crow : race and gender politics in African American literature / Ayesha K. Hardison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardison, Ayesha K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--20th century.

American literature.

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

American literature--History and criticism.

African American women in literature.

Racism in literature.

Sex discrimination in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Race and gender politics in African American literature

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

She draws on a rich collection of memoirs, music, etiquette guides, and comics to further reveal the texture and tensions of the era. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.

Contents:

Introduction: defining Jane Crow

1. At the point of no return: a native son and his Gorgon muse

2. Gender conscriptions, class conciliations and the bourgeois blues aesthetic

3. "Nobody could tell who this be": black and white doubles and the challenge to pedestal femininity

4. "I'll see how crazy they think I am": pulping sexual violence, racial melancholia, and healthy citizenship

5. Rereading the construction of womanhood in popular narratives of domesticity

6. The audacity of hope: an American daughter and her dream of cultural hybridity

Epilogue: refashioning Jane Crow and the black female body

Notes

Works cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record and e-publication, viewed on April 26, 2018

ISBN:

9780813935942

0813935946