Inventing black women : African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000 / Ajuan Maria Mance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mance, Ajuan Maria
Language:	English
Published:	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2007], ©2007.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century. Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century. African American women > Intellectual life > 19th century. African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century. American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism. African American women in literature. African Americans in literature. Race relations in literature. Gender identity in literature.
Physical Description:	x, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Invisible bodies, invisible work: nineteenth-century American womanhood and the pastoral of the American homescape
A "sole and earnest endeavor": African American women's poetry in the late nineteenth century
The black woman as object and symbol: African American women poets in the Harlem Renaissance
Revolutionary dreams: African American women poets in the Black Arts movement
Locating the Black female subject: late-twentieth-century African American women poets and the landscape of the body.