Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature - Paperback

by Tajanae Barnes (Contribution by), Regis Fox (Contribution by), Jacinth Howard (Contribution by)

Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several literary genres and geographies, and introduces Black women writers of the Caribbean to some American audiences. It sheds light on lesser-discussed Black women playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance and re-evaluates the turn-of-the century concept, Noble Womanhood in light of the Cult of Domesticity.

Author Biography

LaToya Jefferson-James is assistant professor of composition and world literature at Mississippi Valley State University.