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In Domestic Allegories of Political Desire, Claudia Tate uncovers the political significance of black women's domestic fiction in the post-Reconstruction period. Tate's cultural analysis draws upon a broad range of texts, including ante-bellum works such as Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, domestic fiction by Pauline Hopkins, Katherine Tillman, and Angelina Weld Grimke, and modernist classics such as Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Domestic Allegories of Political Desire
• Subtitle: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
• Author: Claudia Tate
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780195073898
• ISBN: 0195073894
• ID: 04512947
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 593 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 155 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. April 1993

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