Activist Sentiments(English, Paperback, Foreman P. Gabrielle)

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Activist Sentiments(English, Paperback, Foreman P. Gabrielle) is written by Foreman P. Gabrielle and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252076648 (ISBN 10) and 9780252076640 (ISBN 13).

Activist Sentiments takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to the historical archive, this book offers against-the-grain readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Victoria Earle Matthews and Amelia E. Johnson. Part literary criticism and part cultural history, Activist Sentiments examines nineteenth-century social, political, and representational literacies and reading practices. P. Gabrielle Foreman reveals how Black women's complex and confrontational commentary-often expressed directly in their journalistic prose and organizational involvement--emerges in their sentimental, and simultaneously political, literary production.