Brave humanism : Black women rewriting the human in the age of Jane Crow /

Examines how an early twentieth-century generation of Black women writers were committed to reclaiming and redefining the human on their own terms. For Pauline Hopkins, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks and Lorraine Hansberry, narrative forms offered intellectual space to...

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