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Reconstructing Womanhood


Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

When Hazel Carby received her Ph.D. in 1984 from Birmingham University, her thesis, which centered on slave narratives by women, later became the foundation for her book, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (), published in 1987. Reconstructing Womanhood is a groundbreaking book that redefined the history of African American literature by analyzing writings from black women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as examining the social, political, and historical landscapes these works were produced. Carby structures the book with four major aims in mind:



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