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Writing through Jane Crow

Hardison, Ayesha K., 1978-

Writing through Jane Crow race and gender politics in African American literature / [electronic resource] : Ayesha K. Hardison. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: defining Jane Crow -- At the point of no return: a native son and his Gorgon muse -- Gender conscriptions, class conciliations and the bourgeois blues aesthetic -- "Nobody could tell who this be": black and white doubles and the challenge to pedestal femininity -- "I'll see how crazy they think I am": pulping sexual violence, racial melancholia, and healthy citizenship -- Rereading the construction of womanhood in popular narratives of domesticity -- The audacity of hope: an American daughter and her dream for cultural hybridity -- Epilogue: refashioning Jane Crow and the black female body.

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Sex discrimination in literature.
Racism in literature.
African American women in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS153.N5 / H2235 2014

810.9/896073