Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century

Nazera Sadiq Wright

earliest edition we have, 2016 University of Illinois Press, 2016 256 pages

"Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for explorin...

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Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century edition · 2016 · University of Illinois Press · 272 pages · 9780252099014
Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century edition · 2016 · University of Illinois Press · 256 pages · 9780252040573
Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century edition · 2016 · University of Illinois Press · 256 pages · 9780252082047

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