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Auteur(s) : Hardison, Ayesha K. (1978-....)
Titre(s) : Writing through Jane Crow [Texte imprimé] : race and gender politics in African American literature / Ayesha K. Hardison
Publication : Charlottesville : University of Virginia press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-281 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction: defining Jane Crow ; At the point of no return: a native son and his
Gorgon muse ; Gender conscriptions, class conciliations and the bourgeois blues aesthetic
; "Nobody could tell who this be": black and white doubles and the challenge to pedestal
femininity ; "I'll see how crazy they think I am": pulping sexual violence, racial
melancholia, and healthy citizenship ; Rereading the construction of womanhood in
popular narratives of domesticity ; The audacity of hope: an American daughter and
her dream for cultural hybridity ; Epilogue: refashioning Jane Crow and the black
female body.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature
and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked
decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation--a time
of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement and between
World War II and the modern civil rights movement--black writers also addressed the
effects of "Jane Crow," the interconnected racial, gender, and sexual oppression that
black women experienced. Hardison maps the contours of this literary moment with the
understudied works of well-known writers like Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston,
Ann Petry, and Richard Wright as well as the writings of neglected figures like Curtis
Lucas, Pauli Murray, and Era Bell Thompson. By shifting her focus from the canonical
works of male writers who dominated the period, the author recovers the work of black
women writers. Hardison shows how their texts anticipated the renaissance of black
women's writing in later decades and initiates new conversations on the representation
of women in texts by black male writers. She draws on a rich collection of memoirs,
music, etiquette guides, and comics to further reveal the texture and tensions of
the era." -- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature américaine -- Femmes écrivains -- Thèmes, motifs
Noires américaines -- Dans la littérature
Discrimination sexuelle -- Dans la littérature
Racisme -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813935928 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 081393592X (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780813935935 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0813935938 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780813935942 (erroné) (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438159036
Notice n° :
FRBNF43815903
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