Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902 - Mollie Barnes

Descriere Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902 - Mollie Barnes

\nThe lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing\n \nPaper Heroines, Mollie Barnes studies the ways women represented their own and one another's lives in their personal diaries and their biographies of their contemporaries. By reading these women writers--Black and white, obscure and well-known--in conversation, Barnes presents entirely new portraits of these freedom fighters of the nineteenth-century South Carolina Lowcountry. Like feminist and anti-racist leaders in our own moment, the women in Paper Heroines were often flawed. White women reformers sometimes created tensions, silences, revisions, and erasures within their print-culture networks, obscuring the lives and contributions of Black women. Black women developed counternarratives and counternetworks as they sought to reclaim their own life histories. What emerges from Barnes's exploration of these textual conversations is a story of complicated relationships that reveal the dynamism of women's lives in a place and time that was equally tumultuous and consequential.\n

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University Of South Carolina Press

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9781643365367

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