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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Main Author:	Godfrey, Mollie, 1979- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2025].
Subjects:	American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century. Humanism in literature.

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Summary:	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 challenge the white supremacist and patriarchal logics of Western humanism that underwrote de jure segregation.
Physical Description:	xi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-210) and index.
ISBN:	9780814215296 0814215297 9780814259429 0814259421