Schmidli, Karin
Models and Modifications Early African-American Women Writers

From the Slave Narrative to the Novel.

The study discusses a representative group of six 19th-century African-American women writers and shows how each individual author and each individual text contributes to a movement towards increasing literary independence. These black women authors were influenced in part by English and American literature and by the African oral tradition. However, their specific experiences triggered a literature which - in form, plot, message, and characterization - differed from that of their black male contemporaries. XIII,204 Seiten, gebunden (Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten/Swiss Studies in English; Band 118/A. Francke Verlag 1995)