Recovering the Black Female Body
Subtitle: Self-Representations by African American Women
Contributors: Michael Bennett (Editor); Vanessa D. Dickerson (Editor)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780813528397
Subjects: Black studies; Literary studies: general; Social history; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; History and criticism; American literature; Literary Criticism; Social Science; Sociology; American English; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Women's Studies - General; African American women; Women Authors; 20th century; Body, Human, in literature
First sentence: It may seem odd to use a phrase from Walt Whitman to describe the poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins.