Written by herself : literary production by African American women, 1746-1892 / Frances Smith Foster.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Blacks in the diaspora.
Main Author: Foster, Frances Smith
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1993], ©1993.
Series:Blacks in the diaspora.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Electronic books.
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Physical Description:x, 206 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Testing and testifying : the word, the other, and African American women writers
  • "Sometimes by simile, a victory's won" : Lucy Terry Prince and Phillis Wheatley
  • Equal men but true women : the post-revolution literature
  • "Great liberty in the gospel" : Jarena Lee's religious experiences, life, and journal
  • Gendered writing for promiscuous audiences : African American women's literature in the antebellum period
  • Writing across the color line : Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl
  • Romance and scandal in a postbellum slave narrative : Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes
  • Doers of the word : the reconstruction poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Confrontation and community in Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert's The house of bondage
  • "A woman question and a race problem" : The Black woman's era.