A novel way to learn: black educational fiction from reconstruction to the Harlem renaissance
Engstrom, Arja
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Title
A novel way to learn: black educational fiction from reconstruction to the Harlem renaissance
Author(s)
Engstrom, Arja
Issue Date
2014-05-30T17:19:53Z
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Bauer, Dale M.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Bauer, Dale M.
Committee Member(s)
Foote, Stephanie
Castro, Nancy E.
Mortensen, Peter L.
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
American Literature
African American Literature
African American novel
literature and education
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
college education
Abstract
A Novel Way to Learn examines the development of black fiction in tandem with black
educational advancement from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. By reading education
in the novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sutton Griggs, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Jessie
Redmon Fauset, I reveal an underexplored genealogy of black educational thought from initial
calls for educational access to more independent, ideological, and pragmatic modes embodied in
the texts of black fiction writers. Ultimately, I argue that black educational fiction constitutes a
key strand of African American writing before the Harlem Renaissance.
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