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

by Claudia Tate

Book Overview

Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all black Americans? Such stories now seem like apolitical fantasies to contemporary readers. This is the question at the center of Tate's examination of the novels of Pauline Hopkins, Emma Kelley, Amelia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195108574
• ISBN13: 9780195108576
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"