Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Autor Professor Tara T. Greenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 ian 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501382307
ISBN-10: 1501382306
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1501382306
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Explores the challenges faced by an African American woman writer and activist in the late 19th and early 20th century
Notă biografică
Tara T. Green is CLASS Distinguished Professor and Chair of African American Studies at the University of Houston, USA where she teaches literature and Black women's studies courses. She is the author of Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song (2018), A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men (2009), and See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure during the Interwar Era (2022), and she is the editor of two books, including From the Plantation to the Prison: African American Confinement Literature (2008). She is from the New Orleans area.
Cuprins
Introducing a Respectable Activist1. A Respectable Activist Is Born2. The New Negro Woman in Alice's Literature3. Activism, Love, and Pain 4. Love and Writing5. Finding Alice After Paul6. Love and Education7. Ms. Dunbar and Politics 8. New Negro Woman's Activism9. Family, Film, and the Paper10. The Respectable Activist's Harlem Renaissance11. Love, Desire, and Writing12. 'til Death Does the Activist Part Bibliography Index
Recenzii
Analysis of Dunbar-Nelson's stories and poems are woven into the main episodes of her life, which helps shape Green's exquisite examination of Dunbar-Nelson's public persona. This definitive look at a remarkable figure delivers the goods.
'Respectability politics' has always been a flashpoint for marginalized groups . Few historical figures understood this better than Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the bisexual, feminist, and Black activist most famous for her marriage to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar but deserving of recognition for her poetry and essays. Green makes it clear that as a Black woman, Dunbar-Nelson struggled with conflicting codes of respectability . [and] chronicles how, throughout her life as clubwoman, teacher, journalist, activist, and wife to the temperamental and abusive Dunbar, Dunbar-Nelson navigated the contradictions of intersectional Black feminism, carefully guarding her image as a 'respectable' woman while advocating for radical causes, writing openly about colorism and same-sex relationships, and serving as her husband's sexual scapegoat and (literal) punching bag. A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman.
This is the first book-length biography of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the trailblazing activist, writer, suffragist and educator, remarkably researched and written by University of North Carolina Professor Tara T. Green.
Tara Green proves herself the scholar born to make the sojourn through archives of every kind to bring us Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. This book is superb in its ability to show through the example of a secretly queer and always revolutionary Dunbar-Nelson how Black people continue to subvert the very systems in which we participate for the sake of or survival. Thanks to Professor Green, we can finally see full-fledged that Harlem Renaissance figure whose name too many of us know better than we know her work. This is a brilliant analysis.
In this meticulously researched and brilliantly crafted study, Tara T. Green commences to construct a portrait of Alice Dunbar-Nelson that lifts her from the shadows and resituates her in a space where her talents as a writer, organizer, editor, and activist are consistently foregrounded. Green's investigation of Dunbar-Nelson's vast archive demonstrates with tremendous persuasiveness that far from being a minor figure in African American literary history and cultural production, Dunbar-Nelson's work across creative, political, and activist registers anticipates the kind of work that will be taken up by Zora Neale Hurston, Pauli Murray, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker later in the 20th Century to further the cause of Black feminist organization and to challenge the intersectional barriers to an authentic and fully-realized selfhood. Producing a work that puts Green's talents as literary detective, feminist theorist, and critical interlocutor in bold relief, what ultimately makes this study so valuable is its insistence that Dunbar-Nelson had an unflinching commitment to a life lived on its own terms, emphasizes how one Black woman's political agency was contingent on her ability to define whom she could love and how.
The archival work Tara T. Green has done here is remarkable. We know more about Alice Dunbar-Nelson that we imagined we could know. But there's more. This book teaches us about the layers of Black women's lives that go unremarked upon even when they are remarkable. This book about Alice Dunbar-Nelson's life of activism is itself an act of liberation.
'Respectability politics' has always been a flashpoint for marginalized groups . Few historical figures understood this better than Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the bisexual, feminist, and Black activist most famous for her marriage to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar but deserving of recognition for her poetry and essays. Green makes it clear that as a Black woman, Dunbar-Nelson struggled with conflicting codes of respectability . [and] chronicles how, throughout her life as clubwoman, teacher, journalist, activist, and wife to the temperamental and abusive Dunbar, Dunbar-Nelson navigated the contradictions of intersectional Black feminism, carefully guarding her image as a 'respectable' woman while advocating for radical causes, writing openly about colorism and same-sex relationships, and serving as her husband's sexual scapegoat and (literal) punching bag. A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman.
This is the first book-length biography of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the trailblazing activist, writer, suffragist and educator, remarkably researched and written by University of North Carolina Professor Tara T. Green.
Tara Green proves herself the scholar born to make the sojourn through archives of every kind to bring us Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. This book is superb in its ability to show through the example of a secretly queer and always revolutionary Dunbar-Nelson how Black people continue to subvert the very systems in which we participate for the sake of or survival. Thanks to Professor Green, we can finally see full-fledged that Harlem Renaissance figure whose name too many of us know better than we know her work. This is a brilliant analysis.
In this meticulously researched and brilliantly crafted study, Tara T. Green commences to construct a portrait of Alice Dunbar-Nelson that lifts her from the shadows and resituates her in a space where her talents as a writer, organizer, editor, and activist are consistently foregrounded. Green's investigation of Dunbar-Nelson's vast archive demonstrates with tremendous persuasiveness that far from being a minor figure in African American literary history and cultural production, Dunbar-Nelson's work across creative, political, and activist registers anticipates the kind of work that will be taken up by Zora Neale Hurston, Pauli Murray, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker later in the 20th Century to further the cause of Black feminist organization and to challenge the intersectional barriers to an authentic and fully-realized selfhood. Producing a work that puts Green's talents as literary detective, feminist theorist, and critical interlocutor in bold relief, what ultimately makes this study so valuable is its insistence that Dunbar-Nelson had an unflinching commitment to a life lived on its own terms, emphasizes how one Black woman's political agency was contingent on her ability to define whom she could love and how.
The archival work Tara T. Green has done here is remarkable. We know more about Alice Dunbar-Nelson that we imagined we could know. But there's more. This book teaches us about the layers of Black women's lives that go unremarked upon even when they are remarkable. This book about Alice Dunbar-Nelson's life of activism is itself an act of liberation.