Black Women in New South Literature and Culture Contributor(s): Johnson, Sherita L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415992206 ISBN-13: 9780415992206 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: This book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans in the South. Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the South and what southernness mean without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
Dewey: 810.935 |
LCCN: 2009015478 |
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.80 lbs) 160 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Using the the Negro Problem in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in American Studies and in American literary history, Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the South and what southernness mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region. Johnson challenges the homogeneity of a white South and southern cultural identity by recognizing how fictional and historical black women are underacknowledged agents of cultural change. Johnson regards the South as a cultural region that (re)constructs black womanhood, but she also considers how black womanhood have transformed the South. Specialists in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature will find this book a necessary addition, as will scholars of African American Literature and History. |