Black Women In New South Literature And Culture

Author : Sherita L. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135244453

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Black Women in New South Literature and Culture by Sherita L. Johnson Pdf

Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in American Studies and in American literary history, Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the "South" and what "southernness" mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region. Johnson challenges the homogeneity of a "white" South and southern cultural identity by recognizing how fictional and historical black women are underacknowledged agents of cultural change. Johnson regards the South as a cultural region that (re)constructs black womanhood, but she also considers how black womanhood have transformed the South. Specialists in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature will find this book a necessary addition, as will scholars of African American Literature and History.

Author : Sherita L. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135244460

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Black Women in New South Literature and Culture by Sherita L. Johnson Pdf

This book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans in the South. Sherita L. Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the "South" and what "southernness" mean without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region.

Author : Richard Gray,Owen Robinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470756690

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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South by Richard Gray,Owen Robinson Pdf

From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South. Includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region Combines treatment of major literary works and historical events with a survey of broader themes, movements and issues Explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Huston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, as well as those - black and white, male and female - who are writing now Co-edited by the esteemed scholar Richard Gray, author of the acclaimed volume, A History of American Literature (Blackwell, 2003)

Author : Tim Lanzendörfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000513134

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The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine by Tim Lanzendörfer Pdf

Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment. It offers a comprehensive theorization of the literary magazine in the wake of developments in periodical studies in the last decade, bringing together a wide variety of approaches and concerns. With its distinctive chronological and geographical scope, this volume sheds new light on the possibilities and difficulties of the concept of the literary magazine, balancing a comprehensive overview of key themes and examples with greater attention to new approaches to magazine research. Divided into three main sections, this book offers: • Theory—it investigates definitions and limits of what a literary magazine is and what it does. • History and regionalism—a very broad historical and geographic sweep draws new connections and offers expanded definitions. • Case studies—these range from key modernist little magazines and the popular middlebrow to pulp fiction, comics, and digital ventures, widening the ambit of the literary magazine. The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine offers new and unforeseen cross-connections across the long history of literary periodicals, highlighting the ways in which it allows us to trace such ideas as the “literary” as well as notions of what magazines do in a culture.

Author : Keira V. Williams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820365589

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Why Any Woman by Keira V. Williams Pdf

Author : Jami L. Carlacio
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496845696

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Activism in the Name of God by Jami L. Carlacio Pdf

Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McLaughlin, Darcy Metcalfe, Phillip Luke Sinitiere, P. Jane Splawn, Laura L. Sullivan, and Hettie V. Williams Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present recognizes and celebrates twelve Black feminists who have made an indelible mark not just on Black women’s intellectual history but on American intellectual history in general. The volume includes essays on Jarena Lee, Theressa Hoover, Pauli Murray, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, to name a few. These women’s commitment to the social, political, and economic well-being of oppressed people in the United States shaped their work in the public sphere, which took the form of preaching, writing, singing, marching, presiding over religious institutions, teaching, assuming leadership roles in the civil rights movement, and creating politically subversive print and digital art. This anthology offers readers exemplars with whose minds and spirits we can engage, from whose ideas we can learn, and upon whose social justice work we can build. The volume joins a burgeoning chorus of texts that calls attention to the creativity of Black women who galvanized their readers, listeners, and fellow activists to seek justice for the oppressed. Pushing back on centuries of institutionalized injustices that have relegated Black women to the sidelines, the work of these Black feminist public intellectuals reflects both Christian gospel ethics and non-Christian religious traditions that celebrate the wholeness of Black people.

Author : Gay Wilentz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253207142

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Binding Cultures by Gay Wilentz Pdf

"Wilentz . . . makes convincing arguments for the connections between African and Afro-American women's culture." —Nellie McKay "Wilentz's jargon-free, intelligent discussion . . . will appeal to students in African, African American, and women's literature courses, as well as general readers interested in the emerging field." —Choice "Through these works, Wilentz demonstrates the powerful transformation possible through understanding—and embracing—the past, even if that past includes oppression and brutalization." —Belles Lettres Binding Cultures investigates the cultural bonds between African and African-American women writers such as Nigerian Flora Nwapa and Ghanaians Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, writers who focus on the role of women in passing on cultural values to future generations, and African-American writers Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall, who self-consciously evoke African culture to help create a more integrated African-American community.

Author : Jacqueline Bobo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231083955

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Black Women As Cultural Readers by Jacqueline Bobo Pdf

A pathbreaking study of African-American women's responses to literature and film. . . . Bobo focuses on a small group of middle-class African-American women as they process literature (by Terry McMillan, Alice Walker) that addresses their own experiences. . . . This work should command the attention of all scholars of American popular culture. -- Choice How do black women react as an audience to representations of themselves, and how do their patterns of consumption differ from other groups? Interviews with ordinary black women from many backgrounds uses novels and films to reveal how black female audiences absorb works. -- Midwest Book Review

Author : Filomina Chioma Steady
Publisher : Schenkman Books
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : African American women
ISBN : UCSC:32106009697431

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The Black Woman Cross-culturally by Filomina Chioma Steady Pdf

Author : Maureen Carroll Gilligan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135674175

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Female Corporate Culture and the New South by Maureen Carroll Gilligan Pdf

Before World War I, Southern women's participation in the workforce consisted of black women's domestic labor and white working-class women's industrial or manufacturing work, but after the war, Southern women flooded business offices as stenographers, typists, clerks, and bookkeepers. This book examines their experiences in the clerical workforce, using both traditional labor sources and exploring the cultural institutions that evolved from these women's work-related milieu. Businessmen throughout the South molded this workforce to meet their needs using both labor-saving management techniques and exploiting social mores to enforce gender boundaries that limited women's workplace opportunities. This study traces the social and economic implications of Southern women's increased participation in clerical labor after World War I. While it increased the civic activities of white middle-class southern women, it also confined them to a routinized days work and limited venues of occupational achievement. Through a varied network of business women's clubs and organizations, women struggled with their new identities as workers and attempted to integrate their work lives with their community and family obligations. (Ph.D. dissertation, Emory University, 1995; revised with new Introduction and Preface)

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307798503

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Women, Culture & Politics by Angela Y. Davis Pdf

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.

Author : Olga Barrios
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9788437070223

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The Black Theatre Movement in the United States and in South Africa by Olga Barrios Pdf

El creixement dels moviments sociopolítics entre els anys seixanta i noranta als Estats Units i a Sud-àfrica va establir els ferms fonaments sobre els quals, amb una força i ímpetu sense precedents, es va forjar el teatre negre d?aquests anys. Forma i contingut van sorgir a l?una del compromís polític i artístic adoptat per aquests artistes contra l?imperialisme, el colonialisme i el racisme occidentals. Per primera vegada en la història, el teatre negre dels Estats Units i de Sud-àfrica analitzava i valorava les arrels negres per a poder il·luminar la recerca d?un futur de llibertat. No obstant això, el context sociopolític i les circumstàncies específiques de cada país han generat igualment els trets distintius del teatre afronord-americà i negre sud-africà (incloses les diferències de gènere) manifestos en ramificacions artístiques totalment heterogènies i úniques.

Author : Marjorie Pryse,Hortense J. Spillers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253203600

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Conjuring by Marjorie Pryse,Hortense J. Spillers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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APAIS 1992: Australian public affairs information service by Anonim Pdf

Author : Janell Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429516726

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The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories by Janell Hobson Pdf

In the social and cultural histories of women and feminism, Black women have long been overlooked or ignored. The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories is an impressive and comprehensive reference work for contemporary scholarship on the cultural histories of Black women across the diaspora spanning different eras from ancient times into the twenty-first century. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five parts: A fragmented past, an inclusive future Contested histories, subversive memories Gendered lives, racial frameworks Cultural shifts, social change Black identities, feminist formations Within these sections, a diverse range of women, places, and issues are explored, including ancient African queens, Black women in early modern European art and culture, enslaved Muslim women in the antebellum United States, Sally Hemings, Phillis Wheatley, Black women writers in early twentieth-century Paris, Black women, civil rights, South African apartheid, and sexual violence and resistance in the United States in recent history. The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories is essential reading for students and researchers in Gender Studies, History, Africana Studies, and Cultural Studies.