Research Catalog

Title

Black family (dys)function in novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, & Fannie Hurst / Licia Morrow Calloway.

Author

Calloway, Licia Morrow, 1969-

Publication

New York : P. Lang, c2003.

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Description

xi, 174 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Modern American literature ; vol. 27

Uniform Title

Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) vol. 27.

Subject

• Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968 > Criticism and interpretation
• Fauset, Jessie Redmon > Criticism and interpretation
• Larsen, Nella > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• Domestic fiction, American > History and criticism
• American fiction > History and criticism
• Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• African American families in literature
• African American women in literature
• African Americans in literature
• Dysfunctional families in literature
• African American women > Intellectual life

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-167) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Representational Shifts and Homemade Family Values -- 1. Conceiving Class and Culture: A Contextual Retrospective -- 2. Revising the Victorian Maternal Ideal in Jessie Fauset's There Is Confusion -- 3. Elite Rejection of Maternity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing -- 4. The Stereotypical Mammy in Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life.

ISBN

0820451592 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00048774^

OCLC

• 45137515
• SCSB-12146232

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library