{"product_id":"activist-sentiments-reading-black-women-in-the-nineteenth-century-9780252076640","title":"Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eActivist Sentiments\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart literary criticism and part cultural history, \u003ci\u003eActivist Sentiments\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Foreman, P. Gabrielle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252076640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"P. Gabrielle Foreman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39364464017483,"sku":"9780252076640","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_4786564d-d550-4b8d-85e7-99c089a8ffb3.jpg?v=1621353955","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/activist-sentiments-reading-black-women-in-the-nineteenth-century-9780252076640","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}