Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella

Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst (Modern American Literature)

During the Harlem Renaissance, competing rhetorics of racial uplift centered upon concerns regarding class identification and the process of acculturation into American society. This book demonstrates how the practice of motherhood and the organization of household relations operated to address the pressing issues facing the black community of the early twentieth century. An exploration of such literary constructs as the tragic mulatto, the passing phenomenon, and the mammy result in a revitalized understanding of how the influences of racial intolerance, sexual oppression, and class ideology combined to provoke a model of resistant black maternity in the early modern era.
Country USA
Brand Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Manufacturer Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780820451596
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Manufacturer	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780820451596
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Fannie Hurst (Modern American Literature)