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Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century Tate, Claudia (Professor of African-American and American Literatures, Professor of African-American and American Literatures, George Washington University, USA)
Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
Tate, Claudia (Professor of African-American and American Literatures, Professor of African-American and American Literatures, George Washington University, USA)
Why did African-American novelists use stories of bourgeois marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the 1890s, when racism conditioned the lives of black Americans? This study examines the novels of Pauline Hopkins, Emma Kelley, Amelia Johnson, Katherine Tillman and Frances Harper.
312 pages, halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 27, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195108576 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 312 |
| Dimensions | 232 × 154 × 21 mm · 485 g |
| Language | English |