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The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers

"A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices o...

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Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Robbins, Hollis, 1963- (Editor), Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017]
Series:Penguin classics
Subjects and Genres:
1800-1899
American literature > African American authors > 19th century.
American literature > Women authors > 19th century.
African American women > Literary collections.
FICTION / African American / General.
FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors).
African American women.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > Women authors.
Literatur
Schwarze Frau.
Frauenliteratur
USA.
Literary collections.
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Table of Contents:
  • Personal accounts of abolition and freedom
  • Fugitives and emigrants: moving west and north
  • Northern women and the post-war South
  • Memoirs: looking back
  • Poetry, drama, and fiction
  • Women addressing women: addresses and essays
  • Education and social reform
  • Women memorializing women.

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