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Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (American Literatures Initiative)
Ayesha K. Hardison
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Description for Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (American Literatures Initiative)
Hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation—a time of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement and between World War II and the modern civil rights movement—black writers also addressed the effects of ""Jane Crow,"" the interconnected racial, gender, and sexual oppression that black women experienced. Hardison maps the contours of this literary moment with the understudied works of well-known writers like Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, ... Read more
In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation—a time of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement and between World War II and the modern civil rights movement—black writers also addressed the effects of ""Jane Crow,"" the interconnected racial, gender, and sexual oppression that black women experienced. Hardison maps the contours of this literary moment with the understudied works of well-known writers like Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
American Literatures Initiative
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813935928
SKU
V9780813935928
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About Ayesha K. Hardison
Ayesha K. Hardison is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, USA.
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