Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Foreman, P. Gabrielle
Published: 08/18/2009
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252076640
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d