Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century

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1996
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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 316
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01 Jul 1996
ISBN 10: 9780195108
ISBN 13: 9780195108576