Date of Award
Summer 8-2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
English
Department
English
Major Professor
Dr. Earle Bryant
Second Advisor
Dr. Doreen Piano
Third Advisor
Dr. John Hazlett
Abstract
Many of the Harlem Renaissance anthologies and histories of the movement marginalize and omit women writers who played a significant role in it. They neglect to include them because these women worked outside of socially determined domestic roles and wrote texts that portrayed women as main characters rather than as muses for men or supporting characters. The distorted representation of women of the Renaissance will become clearer through the exploration of the following texts: Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun, Caroline Bond Day’s “Pink Hat,” Dorothy West’s “Mammy,” Angelina Grimke’s Rachel and “Goldie,” and Georgia Douglas Johnson’s A Sunday Morning in the South. In these texts, the themes of passing, motherhood, and lynching are narrated from the consciousness of women, a consciousness that was largely neglected by male writers.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Shantell, "The Unheard New Negro Woman: History through Literature" (2015). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 2046.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2046
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