Title Race and time : American women's poetics from antislavery to racial modernity / by Janet Gray

Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) : illustrations Contents Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1. Wrappings: A Methodological Introduction; 2. Contesting the Pearl: Whiteness, Blackness, and the Possessionof American Poetry2; II ANTEBELLUM; 3. "Skins May Differ": Women's Republicanism and the Poeticsof Abolitionism; 4. The Mummy Returns: Humor, Kinship, and the Bindings of Print; III POSTBELLUM; 5. Looking in the Glass: Sarah Piatt's Poetics of Play and Loss; 6. We Women Radicals: Frances Harper's Poetics of Racial Formation; 7. What One Is Not Was: Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert's Poetics of Self-Reconstruction Summary Race and Time urges our attention to women's poetry in considering the cultural history of race. Building on close readings of well known and less familiar poets-including Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Sarah Louisa Forten, Hannah Flagg Gould, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Piatt, Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert, Sarah Josepha Hale, Eliza Follen, and Mary Mapes Dodge-Gray traces tensions in women's literary culture from the era of abolitionism to the rise of the Plantation tradition. She devotes a chapter to children's verse, arguing that racial stereotypes work as "nonsense" that masks conflicts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-319) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT University of South Alabama gnd Subject American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism Race in literature. Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism Antislavery movements in literature. African Americans in literature. Race relations in literature. Slavery in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors. African Americans in literature American poetry American poetry -- Women authors Antislavery movements in literature Literature and history Race in literature Race relations in literature Slavery in literature Women and literature Ethnische Beziehungen Motiv Ethnizität Motiv Frauenlyrik Sklaverei Motiv Vrouwelijke auteurs. Gedichten. Amerikaans. Abolitionisme. Rassenbeziehung (Motiv) Geschichte 1800-1900. United States USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 158729480X 9781587294808

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