Brave humanism : Black women rewriting the human in the age of Jane Crow / Mollie Godfrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godfrey, Mollie, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

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

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

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

African American women.

Humanism in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Examines how an early twentieth-century generation of Black women writers were committed to reclaiming and redefining the human on their own terms. For Pauline Hopkins, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorraine Hansberry, narrative forms offered intellectual space to challenge the white supremacist and patriarchal logics of Western humanism that underwrote de jure segregation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The brave humanism of Black women writers

Of one blood: blood brotherhood in the Black woman's era

No sanctuary: plagiarism, primitivism, and the politics of recognition

Folk in the flesh: insides, outsides, and the object of anthropology

Networks of care: sentiment, sociology, and the protest fiction debate

Renaissance women: vision and vulnerability in the Black Chicago renaissance

Coda: Bravery and the backlash: Lorraine Hansberry at the forum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-210) and index.

ISBN:

9780814215296

0814215297

9780814259429

0814259421

OCLC:

1463663268