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Stories of liberation from enslavement or oppression have become central to African American women's literature. Beginning with a discussion of black women freedom narratives as a literary genre, the author argues that these texts represent a discourse on civil rights that emerged earlier than the ideas of racial uplift that culminated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An examination of the collective free identity of black women and their relationships to the community focuses on education, individual progress, marriage and family, labor, intellectual commitments and community rebuilding projects.
| Author: Janaka Bowman Lewis| Publisher: McFarland & Company| Publication Date: Dec 07, 2017| Number of Pages: 182 pages| Language: English| Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism| ISBN Black Literature, Literary Genre, Woman Authors, Women Writers, Black Knowledge, The Cradle, The Collective, African History, Marriage And Family

Stories of liberation from enslavement or oppression have become central to African American women's literature. Beginning with a discussion of black women freedom narratives as a literary genre, the author argues that these texts represent a discourse on civil rights that emerged earlier than the ideas of racial uplift that culminated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An examination of the collective free identity of black women and their relationships to the community focuses on…

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