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Author | : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780195052442 |
Frances Harper was renowned in her lifetime not only as an activist who rallied on behalf of blacks, women, and the poor, but as a pioneer of the tradition of 'protest' literature, whose immense popularity did much to develop an audience for poetry in America. This collection of her poems is drawn from ten volumes published between 1854 and 1901. Their main issues are oppression, Christianity, and social and moral reform. Consolidating the oral tradition and the ballad form, and merging dramatic details and imagery with a strong political and racial awareness, Harper's poetry represented a distinctly Afro-American discourse that was to inspire generations of black writers.
Author | : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1513217550 |
The Complete Frances Harper (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and impassioned abolitionist in the decades leading up to the American Civil War. Much of her work was rediscovered in the twentieth century and preserved for its significance to some of the leading social movements of the nineteenth century, including temperance, abolition, and women’s suffrage. As an artist for whom the personal was always political, Frances Harper served in a leadership role at the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and worked to establish the National Association of Colored Women, serving for a time as vice president of the organization. Included in this volume are her early poetry volumes, such as Forest Leaves (1845) and Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854). In “Bury Me in Free Land,” an influential poem published in an 1858 edition of abolitionist newspaper The Anti-Slavery Bugle, Harper expresses her commitment to the cause of freedom in life or death terms: “I ask no monument, proud and high, / To arrest the gaze of the passers-by; / All that my yearning spirit craves, / Is bury me not in a land of slaves.” She reflects on the theme of freedom throughout her body of work, often examining her own identity or experiences as a free Black woman alongside the lives of her enslaved countrymen. The Complete Frances Harper also includes her four groundbreaking novels. Minnie’s Sacrifice (1869), originally serialized in the Christian Recorder, addresses such themes as miscegenation, passing, and the institutionalized rape of enslaved women using the story of Moses as inspiration. Sowing and Reaping (1876) is a novel concerned with the cause of temperance in a time when Black families were frequently torn apart by alcoholism. Trial and Triumph (1888-1889) is a politically conscious novel concerned with an African American community doing its best to overcome hardship with love and solidarity. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) is a story of liberation set during the American Civil War that deals with such themes as abolition, miscegenation, and passing. In these novels, poems, speeches from across her lengthy career as an artist and activist, Harper not only dedicates herself to her suffering people, but imagines a time “When men of diverse sects and creeds / Are clasping hand in hand.” With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Complete Frances Harper is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author | : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
Publisher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781558610200 |
"Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was the most important and the most popular black feminist abolitionist writer and activist of the nineteenth century. A Brighter Day Coming, the most comprehensive collection of her works, includes all the poems from Harper's extant original volumes, plus many that have never been collected and one that was discovered in manuscript; speeches; and a selection of prose, including excerpts from the novel Iola Leroy and the serialized novel Fancy Etchings, and a generous group of letters ..."--Back cover.
Author | : Frances E. W. Harper |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-08-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486141187 |
This 1892 work was among the first novels published by an African-American woman. Its striking portrait of life during the Civil War and Reconstruction recounts a mixed-race woman's devotion to uplifting the black community.
Author | : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2004 |
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ISBN | : 1554808367 |
Author | : Melba Joyce Boyd |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780814324899 |
In this important study, poet Melba Joyce Boyd analyzes Harper not simply as a feminist and an activist, but as a writer.
Author | : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1891 |
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Author | : Frances E.W Harper |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2020-07-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752359838 |
Reproduction of the original: Minnie's Sacrifice by Frances E.W Harper
Author | : Frances Harper |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2000-03-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780807062333 |
Winner of the College Language Association Book Award Frances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-American writer of the nineteenth century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of The Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been written specifically for an African-American audience.
Author | : Utz McKnight |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-12-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781509535545 |
Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most important advocates of Abolitionism and female suffrage, and her pioneering work still has profound lessons for us today. In this new book, Utz McKnight shows how Harper’s life and work inspired her contemporaries to imagine a better America. He seeks to recover her importance by examining not only her vision of the possibilities of Emancipation, but also her subsequent role in challenging Jim Crow. He argues that engaging with her ideas and writings is vital in understanding not only our historical inheritance, but also contemporary issues ranging from racial violence to the role of Christianity. This lucid book is essential reading not only for students of African American history, but also for all progressives interested in issues of race, politics, and society.