Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted A Reconstruction-Era Story of Slavery, Passing, Emancipation, and Black Citizenship
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Good Press
10,89 €
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Good PressSeitenzahl
136
Maße (L/B/H)
0,7/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
209 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-272-8587-7
Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) is a landmark novel of Reconstruction, tracing the life of Iola, a light-skinned woman raised as white who is enslaved after her ancestry is exposed, then becomes a teacher, nurse, and advocate for racial uplift. Blending sentimental fiction, realism, Christian moral discourse, and political argument, Harper situates private suffering within the national crisis of slavery, emancipation, and Black citizenship, making the novel both a domestic narrative and a public intervention. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was among the most influential African American writers, lecturers, and reformers of the nineteenth century. Born free in Baltimore in 1825, she became a poet, abolitionist speaker, temperance activist, and advocate for women's rights. Her lifelong engagement with antislavery organizing, education, and racial justice directly informs the novel's emphasis on literacy, moral responsibility, family restoration, and collective progress after emancipation. This book is recommended for readers interested in African American literature, feminist thought, Reconstruction history, and the political uses of fiction. Harper's novel rewards attention not only as a moving story of identity and survival, but also as a sophisticated argument for justice, community, and national renewal.
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