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Title Inventing black women : African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000 / Ajuan Maria Mance.
Author Mance, Ajuan Maria.
Publication Info. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2007.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  811.509 MAN    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 202 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index.
Contents Invisible bodies, invisible work: nineteenth-century American womanhood and the pastoral of the American homescape -- A "sole and earnest endeavor": African American women's poetry in the late nineteenth century -- The black woman as object and symbol: African American women poets in the Harlem Renaissance -- Revolutionary dreams: African American women poets in the Black Arts movement -- Locating the Black female subject: late-twentieth-century African American women poets and the landscape of the body.
Subject American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African American women -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
African American women -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
ISBN 9781572334922 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1572334924 (hardcover : alk. paper) : $36.00
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