Research Catalog

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Description

1. xii, 240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship"--Publisher description.

Subject

1. Political culture > United States > History > 19th century
2. United States > Race relations > History > 19th century
3. African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century
4. Girls in literature
5. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
6. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
7. African Americans > Politics and government > 19th century
8. African American girls > History > 19th century
9. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
10. Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century
11. African Americans in literature
12. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
13. African Americans > Social conditions > 19th century

Contents

1. Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Black Girlhood -- Black Girlhood in the Early Black Press -- Youthful Girls and Prematurely Knowing Girls : Antebellum Black Girlhood -- "Teach your Daughters" : Black Girlhood and Mrs. N. F. Mossell's Advice Column in the New York Freeman -- Moving the Boundaries : Black Girlhood and Public Careers in Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and Triumph -- Black Girlhood in Early-Twentieth-Century Black Conduct Books -- Epilogue: The Changing Same? : Next-Generation Black Girlhood.

Call number

1. Sc E 16-1965

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Wright, Nazera Sadiq, 1974- author.

Title

1. Black girlhood in the nineteenth century / Nazera Sadiq Wright.

Publisher

1. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2016017792

ISBN

1. 9780252040573 hardcover alkaline paper
2. 0252040570 hardcover alkaline paper
3. 9780252082047 paper alkaline paper
4. 0252082044 paper alkaline paper

Research call number

1. Sc E 16-1965