Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth…
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Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth centuryThe Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women's suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers.
The diverse selection includes well-known