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Shining Stars: African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era

Broadnax, Lavonda Kay

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Title
Shining Stars: African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era
Author(s)
Broadnax, Lavonda Kay
Issue Date
2025-03-31
Keyword(s)
  • 19th Century
  • African American
  • Women Authors
  • Literature
  • Civil War
  • African American literature
  • 19th Century African American Women Authors
  • 19th Century Women authors
  • Civil War women authors
  • 19th Century African American literature
Date of Ingest
2025-04-21T14:28:05-05:00
Abstract
“Shining Stars…is a welcome and important addition to a growing constellation of projects focusing on Black women authors, Black women’s intellectual history, and Black women’s writing during the Civil War Era. Broadnax’s opening gambit, “it is unusual to anticipate the existence of publications written by African Americans” from the Civil War era, echoes a tradition of bibliographers challenging scholarly presumptions about absences….Broadnax has provided a wonderful service to the fields of African American literary studies, Civil War studies, print culture, and digital humanities.” Derrick R. Spires, University of Delaware This project capitalizes on the discovery of lesser-known works by African American women of the US Civil War era (1861-1865). The documents, all available in digital format, consist of an array of various types of fiction and nonfiction. Their writings provide a unique perspective on the trials and triumphs of the enslaved. Their texts also reflect their post-slavery politics, spirituality, and activism. This remarkable collection of documents enables users to acquire new information regarding African Americans that has traditionally been omitted. The project also provides extensive primary sources pertaining to the authors. All the online resources are full text and free. This title was peer reviewed with a single-blind process by the AFRO-PWW editorial board. Please cite this book using the DOI: 10.21900/pww.27.
Publisher
Illinois Open Publishing Network
Type of Resource
  • text
  • still image
Genre of Resource
book
Language
eng
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/pww.27
Copyright and License Information
Copyright (c) 2025 Lavonda Kay Broadnax. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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