{"product_id":"resistance-reimagined-black-womens-critical-thought-as-survival-hardcover","title":"Resistance Reimagined: Black Women's Critical Thought as Survival - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRegis M. Fox\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Offers fresh insights into nineteenth-century black women's cultural production. Compelling and elegantly crafted.\"--Kathy L. Glass, author of \u003ci\u003eCourting Communities: Black Female Nationalism and \"Syncre-Nationalism\" in the Nineteenth-Century North\u003c\/i\u003e \"Outstanding in explaining why these figures were important leaders in their own time and are important models today. A truly engaging and significant study.\"-John Ernest, editor of \u003ci\u003eDouglass in His Own Time\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eResistance Reimagined\u003c\/i\u003e highlights unconventional modes of black women's activism within a society that has spoken so much of freedom but has granted it so selectively. Regis Fox terms this gap between democratic promise and dispossession the \"liberal problematic,\" and in this book she shows how black women have disrupted it as a form of resistance. Looking closely at nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings by African American women that reimagine antebellum America, Fox introduces types of black activism that differ from common associations with militancy and maleness. In doing so, she confronts expectations about what African American literature can and should be.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFox analyzes Harriet Wilson's \u003ci\u003eOur Nig\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Keckly's \u003ci\u003eBehind the Scenes, \u003c\/i\u003eAnna Julia Cooper's \u003ci\u003eA Voice From the South\u003c\/i\u003e, and Sherley Anne Williams's \u003ci\u003eDessa Rose\u003c\/i\u003e. Too often, she argues, writers like these have been overshadowed by figures such as Sojourner Truth or Ida B. Wells, whose more tangible social defiance fits standard models of what resistance looks like. The thinkers highlighted by Fox have been dismissed as elitist, accommodationist, or complicit--yet Fox reveals that in reality, they critique the progressive ideology that underlies the liberal problematic. They are astutely attuned to the areas of American society not reached by notions of liberalism and progress. As a result, the world they portray is one of philosophical contradictions, legal paradoxes, and incoherent social practices that support white supremacy. Fox shows how these women use their writing to protest antiblack violence, reject superficial reform, call for major sociopolitical change, and challenge the false promises of American democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRegis M. Fox \u003c\/b\u003eis assistant professor of English at Grand Valley State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45515588698214,"sku":"9780813056586","price":133.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/0vxAMvBFCb9780813056586.webp?v=1776401429","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/resistance-reimagined-black-womens-critical-thought-as-survival-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}