Description
| Product ID: | 9781138389588 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Library Editions: African American Literature |
| Title: | The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature |
| Subtitle: | Clothed in my Right Mind |
| Authors: | Author: Jacqueline K. Bryant |
| Page Count: | 170 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethnic studies, Gender studies: women, Black & Asian studies, USA, English |
| Description: | Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women's Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in nineteenth century American literature. Originally published in 1999 The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women''s Literature looks at how stereotypical foremother figure exists in nineteenth century American literature. The book argues that older black woman portrayed in early black women’s works differs significantly from the older black women portrayed in early white women’s works. The foremother figure, then emerging in early black women’s fiction revises the stereotypical mother figure in early white women’s fiction. In the context of the mulatta heroine the foremother produces minimal language that, through an Afrocentric rhetoric, distinguishes her from the stereotypical mother and thus links her peripheral role and unusual behaviour to cultural continuity and radical uplift. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-10-30 |
