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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1996-06-27
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN
- 9780195108576
- Book Title
- Domestic Allegories of Political Desire : the Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
- Item Length
- 6.1 in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Social Science
- Topic
- American / African American, General, Women's Studies, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 9.1 in
- Item Weight
- 17.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all black Americans? Such stories now seem like apolitical fantasies to contemporary readers. This is the question at the center of Tate's examination of the novels of Pauline Hopkins, Emma Kelley, Amelia Johnson, Katherine Tillman, and Frances Harper. Domestic Allegories of Political Desire is more than a literary study; it is also a social and intellectual history--a cultural critique of a period that historian Rayford W. Logan called "the Dark Ages of recent American history." Against a rich contextual framework, extending from abolitionist protest to the Black Aesthetic, Tate argues that the idealized marriage plot in these novels does not merely depict the heroine's happiness and economic prosperity. More importantly, that plot encodes a resonant cultural narrative--a domestic allegory--about the political ambitions of an emancipated people. Once this domestic allegory of political desire is unmasked in these novels, it can be seen as a significant discourse of the post-Reconstruction era for representing African-Americans' collective dreams about freedom and for reconstructing those contested dreams into consummations of civil liberty.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195108574
ISBN-13
9780195108576
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52504
Product Key Features
Book Title
Domestic Allegories of Political Desire : the Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, General, Women's Studies, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.1 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
9.1 in
Item Weight
17.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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College Audience
Reviews
"Tate has written a fine book, one that reasserts the black bourgeoisie's right to claim part of the history of black protest and black art in this country. It should be on the reading list of every black and white feminist critic, and indeed on the reading list of every nineteenth-century andtwentieth-century Americanist."--Journal of English and Germanic Philology, "A ground-breaking work....As a pioneering work, it is itself critical history."-- Women's Review of Books "Tate...offers profound insights into literature that is increasingly reaching wider audiences and enriching the canon."-- Belles Lettres "Tate has given us a treasure....Because of her familiarity with Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction historiography, and because of her sensititve reading of the materials she uses, Tate's book deserves an honored place in historical literature."-- American Historical Review "This fine study...is certain to remain the key work on its subject for the forseeable future."-- American Studies, "Claudia Tate's book takes the archeological project of excavating therich vein of black women writers' contributions to African American literatureanother step forward. Here is more proof of the coming of age of literarystudies in this field. Tate's groundbreaking exploration of elevenpost-Reconstruction stories, the first on domestic novels of black womenwriters, casts this group in a new light and gives fresh life to the whole bodyof scholarship on the domestic novel in America."--Nellie McKay, University ofWisconsin, "Tate has written an important and well-researched book that, among otherthings, will help to restore historical meanings that have been lost through thearrogance of modern interpretive prejudices and to reconfigure the quest forracial justice beyond male-dominated tropes, symbols, and obsessions....Tate isto be commended for the extent of her research and her meticulous grounding ofthe novel's historical context..."--Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, "A ground-breaking work....As a pioneering work, it is itself critical history."--Women's Review of Books, "Tate has given us a treasure: a valuable new perspective on Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction histories and historiographies in combination with a sensitive cross-cultural insight into women's and, particularly black women's, relation to that culture. Because of her familiarity withReconstruction and post-Reconstruction historiography, and because of her sensititve reading of the materials she uses, Tate's book deserves an honored place in historical literature."--American Historical Review, "A ground-breaking work....As a pioneering work, it is itself critical history."--Women's Review of Books "Tate...offers profound insights into literature that is increasingly reaching wider audiences and enriching the canon."--Belles Lettres "Tate has given us a treasure....Because of her familiarity with Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction historiography, and because of her sensititve reading of the materials she uses, Tate's book deserves an honored place in historical literature."--American Historical Review "This fine study...is certain to remain the key work on its subject for the forseeable future."--American Studies, "Claudia Tate has been one of our significant leaders in showing us how deep, powerful, fascinating, and important the writing by African-American women is. Her newest book, Domestic Allegories of Political Desire, is a triumphant exploration of their history and achievements."--CatharineStimpson, Rutgers University, "A fascinating and informative discussion of the post-Reconstructionnovels of black women. Claudia Tate has provided us with an elegantly writtenand persuasively argued account of the gendered nature of the relations betweenpolitical desire and the cultural politics of fiction. This book isindispensable for understanding the ways in which black women created andmaintained fictional landscapes of hope, equity and justice in the face of ahistorical landscape of intensifying racist oppression."--Hazel V. Carby, YaleUniversity, "A ground-breaking work....As a pioneering work, it is itself critical history."--Women's Review of Books"Tate...offers profound insights into literature that is increasingly reaching wider audiences and enriching the canon."--Belles Lettres"Tate has given us a treasure....Because of her familiarity with Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction historiography, and because of her sensititve reading of the materials she uses, Tate's book deserves an honored place in historical literature."--American Historical Review"This fine study...is certain to remain the key work on its subject for the forseeable future."--American Studies, "A significant contribution to American literary scholarship about forgotten and unknown works....Tate approaches her subject with years of concentrated thought....Offers profound insights into literature that is increasingly reaching wider audiences and enriching the canon."--BellesLettres, "Tate has written a fine book, one that reasserts the black bourgeoisie'sright to claim part of the history of black protest and black art in thiscountry. It should be on the reading list of every black and white feministcritic, and indeed on the reading list of every nineteenth-century andtwentieth-century Americanist."--Journal of English and GermanicPhilology, "A fascinating and informative discussion of the post-Reconstruction novels of black women. Claudia Tate has provided us with an elegantly written and persuasively argued account of the gendered nature of the relations between political desire and the cultural politics of fiction. This book isindispensable for understanding the ways in which black women created and maintained fictional landscapes of hope, equity and justice in the face of a historical landscape of intensifying racist oppression."--Hazel V. Carby, Yale University, "Tate has given us a treasure: a valuable new perspective onReconstruction and post-Reconstruction histories and historiographies incombination with a sensitive cross-cultural insight into women's and,particularly black women's, relation to that culture. Because of her familiaritywith Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction historiography, and because of hersensititve reading of the materials she uses, Tate's book deserves an honoredplace in historical literature."--American Historical Review, "Claudia Tate has been one of our significant leaders in showing us howdeep, powerful, fascinating, and important the writing by African-American womenis. Her newest book, Domestic Allegories of Political Desire, is a triumphantexploration of their history and achievements."--Catharine Stimpson, RutgersUniversity, "A significant contribution to American literary scholarship aboutforgotten and unknown works....Tate approaches her subject with years ofconcentrated thought....Offers profound insights into literature that isincreasingly reaching wider audiences and enriching the canon."--BellesLettres, "Claudia Tate's book takes the archeological project of excavating the rich vein of black women writers' contributions to African American literature another step forward. Here is more proof of the coming of age of literary studies in this field. Tate's groundbreaking exploration of elevenpost-Reconstruction stories, the first on domestic novels of black women writers, casts this group in a new light and gives fresh life to the whole body of scholarship on the domestic novel in America."--Nellie McKay, University of Wisconsin, "Tate has written an important and well-researched book that, among other things, will help to restore historical meanings that have been lost through the arrogance of modern interpretive prejudices and to reconfigure the quest for racial justice beyond male-dominated tropes, symbols, andobsessions....Tate is to be commended for the extent of her research and her meticulous grounding of the novel's historical context..."--Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
Copyright Date
1996
Dewey Decimal
813.4/09896073
Dewey Edition
20
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