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9780252082047 Academic Inspection Copy

Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century

  • ISBN-13: 9780252082047
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Nazera Sadiq Wright
  • Price: AUD $60.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2016
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
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An important gift from an emerging scholar with a keen critical eye and impressive sleuthing skills. With depth and insight, Wright explores African American women's most exigent issues from the cusp and vantage of girlhood: marriage, motherhood, widowhood, and employment, each state intensified by the myriad oppressions black women uniquely face. In addition, Wright's book enriches nascent black print culture studies through its compelling engagement with archival documents and its valuable illumination of previously neglected newspapers, magazines, conduct books, sentimental discourses of all types. Drawing on a striking variety of print media, Wright revels in today's incalculable possibilities for research into African American women's history, literature and culture, and illustrates significant ways understudied black literary gems--from nineteenth century newspapers and scrapbooks--can deepen readers' insights into the supremacy of education to black people across US history and African American women's fierce pursuits of justice and self-determination.--Joycelyn Moody, Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio
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