Activist Sentiments Format: Hardcover

P. Gabrielle Foreman

ISBN 10: 0252034740 / ISBN 13: 9780252034749

Published by University of Chicago press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Activist Sentiments Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Chicago press

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis:

Activist Sentiments takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to the historical archive, this book offers against-the-grain readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Victoria Earle Matthews and Amelia E. Johnson.

Part literary criticism and part cultural history, Activist Sentiments examines nineteenth-century social, political, and representational literacies and reading practices. P. Gabrielle Foreman reveals how Black women's complex and confrontational commentary–often expressed directly in their journalistic prose and organizational involvement--emerges in their sentimental, and simultaneously political, literary production.

About the Author:

P. Gabrielle Foreman is a professor of English and American studies at Occidental College. She is the author of multiple articles and the coeditor of Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black.