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- African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Black Reconstructions: Introduction
- Part I Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities
- Chapter 1 Sketching Black Citizenship on Installment after the Fifteenth Amendment
- Chapter 2 Stories of Citizenship: The Rise of Narrative Black Poetry during Reconstruction
- Chapter 3 National Housekeeping: (Re)dressing the Politics of Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century African American Literary History
- Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Rhetoric of AME Ministry
- Part II Persons and Bodies
- Part III Memories, Materialities, and Locations
- Index
Chapter 3 - National Housekeeping: (Re)dressing the Politics of Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century African American Literary History
from Part I - Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2021
- African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880
- African American Literature in Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Black Reconstructions: Introduction
- Part I Citizenships, Textualities, and Domesticities
- Chapter 1 Sketching Black Citizenship on Installment after the Fifteenth Amendment
- Chapter 2 Stories of Citizenship: The Rise of Narrative Black Poetry during Reconstruction
- Chapter 3 National Housekeeping: (Re)dressing the Politics of Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century African American Literary History
- Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Rhetoric of AME Ministry
- Part II Persons and Bodies
- Part III Memories, Materialities, and Locations
- Index
Summary
Rynetta Davis’s “National Housekeeping: (Re)dressing the Politics of Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century African American Literary History” considers how nineteenth-century Black women writers contested and revised representations of traditional Black domesticity. Moving outside of the home and beyond traditional forms of domestic work, Elizabeth Keckley, Julia Collins, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper suggest that Black domestic work exceeds the home space. Davis thus examines a range of domestic print practices and sensibilities in ways that highlight gender, gendered spaces and work, and print possibilities surrounding such. In this, her chapter considers just what “domestic” citizenship might look like.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880Black Reconstructions, pp. 72 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021