Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist

Author/Contributor(s):	Carby, Hazel V
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	12/31/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Reconstructing Womanhood is a black feminist history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers and a critical account of the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction. This revised edition includes a new preface by the author, foreword by Sarah Haley, and afterword by Robert Reid-Pharr.