Hardison, Ayesha K., author.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.;©2014
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: defining Jane Crow — At the point of no return: a native son and his Gorgon muse — Gender conscriptions, class conciliations and the bourgeois blues aesthetic — Nobody could tell who this be : black and white doubles and the challenge to pedestal femininity — I’ll see how crazy they think I am : pulping sexual violence, racial melancholia, and healthy citizenship — Rereading the construction of womanhood in popular narratives of domesticity — The audacity of hope: an American daughter and her dream for cultural hybridity — Epilogue: refashioning Jane Crow and the black female body.

Subjects:

• American literature — African American authors — History and criticism.
• American literature — Women authors — History and criticism.
• American literature — 20th century — History and criticism.
• African American women in literature.
• Racism in literature.
• Sex discrimination in literature.

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