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Jessie Fauset's Not-So-New Negro Womanhood: The Harlem Renaissance, the Long Nineteenth Century, and Legacies of Feminine Representation
Meredith Goldsmith
Jan 01, 0001
Fauset's texts offer a repository of precisely what critic Alain Locke labeled retrograde: seemingly outdated plotlines and tropes that draw upon multiple literary, historical, and popular cultural sources. This essay aims to...
Jessie Fauset Harlem Renaissance African-American literature African-American women 1920s Plum Bun Comedy: American Style Black women Gender race passing New Negro Woman tropes Femininity American culture mid-Victorian African American Studies Arts and Humanities English Language and Literature Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority Women's Studies
Published by: Ursinus College