Monstrous work and radical satisfaction : Black women writing under segregation /

Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction offers new and insightful readings of African American women's writings in the 1930s-1950s, illustrating these writers' radical resistance to the false and incomplete promise of liberal racial integration. Eve Dunbar demonstrates how they offer new b...

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Main Author:	Dunbar, Eve, 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2024].
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. African American women in literature. Segregation in literature. African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century. African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.

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Summary:	Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction offers new and insightful readings of African American women's writings in the 1930s-1950s, illustrating these writers' radical resistance to the false and incomplete promise of liberal racial integration. Eve Dunbar demonstrates how they offer new blueprints for Black life by creating narrative models for radical satisfaction, Black women's completeness, joy and happiness outside the bounds of normative racial inclusion.
Physical Description:	x, 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781517917869 1517917867 9781517917876 1517917875