From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

by Trudier Harris

Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris's classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the domestic in Black American literature with a new afterword bringing her analysis into the present.

From Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817321683
• ISBN13: 9780817321680
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 232 Pages