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Iola Leroy, Or, Shadows Uplifted
Iola Leroy, Or, Shadows Uplifted | Frances E W Harper
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2015 Reprint of 1892 Edition. This is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman. While following what has been termed the "sentimental" conventions of late nineteenth-century writing about women, it also deals with serious social issues of education for women, passing, miscegenation, abolition, reconstruction, temperance, and social responsibility. Harper's novel remains important as one of the earliest novels written by an African American and as a fictional work dealing with complex issues of race, class, and politics in the United States. Recent scholarship suggests that Harper's novel provides a sophisticated understanding of citizenship, gender, and community, particularly the way that African Americans developed hybrid forms of "gemeinschaft" and "gesellschaft" before, during, and after slavery.
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Iola Leroy: Or Shadows Uplifted | Frances E.W. Harper
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This book should be better known! It‘s one of the first novels written by an African American woman, and it‘s a delight. Iola, the main character, is raised and educated as a white woman, but discovers that she has African blood when her white father dies and his cousin and heir has her mother‘s manumission declared illegal. Many of the main characters could pass for white but heroically choose not to. There are also strong Christian themes and…

Clare-Dragonfly … a brief but sweet romance to round it out. 2y
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Iola Leroy, Or, Shadows Uplifted | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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finished book 2 for my african american literature class!

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