Race and time : American women's poetics from antislavery to racial modernity / by Janet Gray.

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Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1. Wrappings: A Methodological Introduction; 2. Contesting the Pearl: Whiteness, Blackness, and the Possessionof American Poetry2; II ANTEBELLUM; 3. "Skins May Differ": Women's Republicanism and the Poeticsof Abolitionism; 4. The Mummy Returns: Humor, Kinship, and the Bindings of Print; III POSTBELLUM; 5. Looking in the Glass: Sarah Piatt's Poetics of Play and Loss; 6. We Women Radicals: Frances Harper's Poetics of Racial Formation; 7. What One Is Not Was: Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert's Poetics of Self-Reconstruction.

Race and Time urges our attention to women's poetry in considering the cultural history of race. Building on close readings of well known and less familiar poets-including Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, Sarah Louisa Forten, Hannah Flagg Gould, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sarah Piatt, Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert, Sarah Josepha Hale, Eliza Follen, and Mary Mapes Dodge-Gray traces tensions in women's literary culture from the era of abolitionism to the rise of the Plantation tradition. She devotes a chapter to children's verse, arguing that racial stereotypes work as "nonsense" that masks conflicts

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