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Author Wright, Nazera Sadiq, 1974- author.

Title Black girlhood in the nineteenth century / Nazera Sadiq Wright.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.

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Summary "Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship"--Publisher description.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Black Girlhood -- Black Girlhood in the Early Black Press -- Youthful Girls and Prematurely Knowing Girls : Antebellum Black Girlhood -- "Teach your Daughters" : Black Girlhood and Mrs. N.F. Mossell's Advice Column in the New York Freeman -- Moving the Boundaries : Black Girlhood and Public Careers in Frances E.W. Harper's Trial and Triumph -- Black Girlhood in Early-Twentieth-Century Black Conduct Books -- Epilogue: The Changing Same? : Next-Generation Black Girlhood.
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Subject African American girls -- History -- 19th century.
African American girls.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Politics and government.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Political culture.
United States.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Girls in literature.
Girls in literature.
Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Politics and literature.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Race relations.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Wright, Nazera Sadiq, 1974- Black girlhood in the nineteenth century. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016 9780252040573 (DLC) 2016017792
ISBN 9780252099014 (electronic book)
025209901X (electronic book)
9780252040573 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0252040570
9780252082047
0252082044