Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Black Reconstructions: Introduction
- Part I Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities
- Part II Persons and Bodies
- Chapter 5 Black Reform, Writing, and Resistance: Textual Politics in the Postwar Era
- Chapter 6 Post-Civil War Black Childhoods
- Chapter 7 Disabling Freedom: Bloody Shirt Rhetoric in Postbellum Slave Narratives
- Chapter 8 Radical Respectability and African American Women’s Reconstruction Fiction
- Part III Memories, Materialities, and Locations
- Index
Chapter 5 - Black Reform, Writing, and Resistance: Textual Politics in the Postwar Era
from Part II - Persons and Bodies
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Book contents
- African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Black Reconstructions: Introduction
- Part I Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities
- Part II Persons and Bodies
- Chapter 5 Black Reform, Writing, and Resistance: Textual Politics in the Postwar Era
- Chapter 6 Post-Civil War Black Childhoods
- Chapter 7 Disabling Freedom: Bloody Shirt Rhetoric in Postbellum Slave Narratives
- Chapter 8 Radical Respectability and African American Women’s Reconstruction Fiction
- Part III Memories, Materialities, and Locations
- Index
Summary
Kathy Glass’s “Black Reform, Writing, and Resistance” highlights social networks, textual politics, and Black resistance and focuses on African Americans’ sustained literary activism against myriad social evils after the Civil War. The chapter begins to map the politics of uplift, temperance, and social reform, with emphasis on work by Julia C. Collins, Harper, and William Wells Brown. Glass suggests these texts underscore literature’s potential for political work by inspiring readers and encouraging collective resistance against oppression.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880Black Reconstructions, pp. 115 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021