Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century by Claudia Tate

Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century

Claudia Tate

312 pages • first pub 1992 (view editions)

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of a...

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