Domestic allegories of political desire : the Black heroine's text at the turn of the century / Claudia Tate.

This study aims to uncover the political significance of black women's domestic fiction in the post-Reconstruction period. The author's cultural analysis draws upon a range of texts including works by Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, Katherine Tillman and Zora Neale.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Tate, Claudia
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Subjects:	Domestic fiction, American > History and criticism. American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. Politics and literature > United States. African American women > Intellectual life. African American women in literature. Heroines in literature. Marriage in literature. Desire in literature. Allegory. American fiction > African American authors. American fiction > Women authors. Domestic fiction, American. Politics and literature. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A Highway through the Wilderness of Post-Reconstruction; 1. Maternal Discourses as Antebellum Social Protest; 2. Legacies of Intersecting Cultural Conventions; 3. To Vote and to Marry: Locating a Gendered and Historicized Model of Interpretation; 4. Allegories of Gender and Class as Discourses of Political Desire; 5. Sexual Discourses of Political Reform of the Post-Reconstruction Era; 6. Revising the Patriarchal Texts of Husband and Wife in Real and Fictive Worlds; 7. From Domestic Happiness to Racial Despair; 8. Domestic Tragedy as Racial Protest; Notes.

Domestic allegories of political desire : the Black heroine's text at the turn of the century / Claudia Tate.

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