Inventing black women : African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000

Inventing black women : African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000 / Ajuan Maria Mance.

Author/creator	Mance, Ajuan Maria
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2007.
Description	x, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	American poetry--African American authors --History and criticism. Women and literature--United States --History --19th century. Women and literature--United States --History --20th century. African American women--Intellectual life --19th century. African American women--Intellectual life --20th century. American poetry--Women authors --History and criticism. African American women in literature. African Americans in literature. Race relations in literature. Gender identity in literature.

Contents	Invisible bodies, invisible work: nineteenth-century American womanhood and the pastoral of the American homescape -- A "sole and earnest endeavor": African American women's poetry in the late nineteenth century -- The black woman as object and symbol: African American women poets in the Harlem Renaissance -- Revolutionary dreams: African American women poets in the Black Arts movement -- Locating the Black female subject: late-twentieth-century African American women poets and the landscape of the body.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index.
LCCN	2006035355
ISBN	9781572334922 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	1572334924 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS310.B53 M36 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold