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Writing through Jane Crow : race and gender politics in African American literature
Title
Writing through Jane Crow : race and gender politics in African American literature / Ayesha K. Hardison.
ISBN
9780813935928 (cloth : alk. paper)
081393592X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813935935 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813935938 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813935942 (e-book)
Publication
Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2014]
Physical Description
xii, 281 pages ; 23 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 05, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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