black women's critical thought as survival
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Fox, Regis M.
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- romans, zwarte vrouwen, zwarte schrijvers, politieke participatie, etniciteit, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Fox analyzes Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, Elizabeth Keckly's Behind the Scenes, Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice From the South, and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose. Too often, she argues, writers like these have been overshadowed by figures such as Sojourner Truth or Ida B. Wells, whose more tangible social defiance fits standard models of what resistance looks like. The thinkers highlighted by Fox have been dismissed as elitist, accommodationist, or complicit--yet Fox reveals that in reality, they critique the progressive ideology that underlies the liberal problematic. They are astutely attuned to the areas of American society not reached by notions of liberalism and progress.