Women's Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels

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Women’s Work Women’s Work Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels courtney thorsson University of Virginia Press charlottesville and london A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org. University of Virginia Press© 2013 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper First published 2013 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Thorsson, Courtney, 1978– Women’s work : nationalism and contemporary African American women’s novels / Courtney Thorsson. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8139-3447-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8139-3448-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8139-3449-5 (e-book) 1. American fiction—African American authors—History and criticism. 2. American fiction—Women authors—History and criticism. 3. African American women in literature. 4. National characteristics, American, in literature. 5. African American women—Employment—In literature. I. Title. PS374.N4T49 2013 813.009’896073—dc21 2012050637 ...