Jakob (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} heelgrasper) wrote,@ 2005-02-27 18:54:00 |
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Black and white
In 1988 Oxford University Press published Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. 40 volumes to bring the works of a double minority of writers to the worlds attention. But what if a novelist celebrated as a pioneer of African-American women's literature turned out not to be black at all?. That seems to be the case with Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins, who wrote the novel Four Girls At Cottage City (1895) - the novel that actually gave inspiration for the the 1988-publication.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the editor of the Schomburg Library comments the discovery with these words: "I'm intrigued by the idea [...] that so many scholars have concluded that this woman was black, and it certainly will be interesting for us to figure out why".
I would like to know that too. There must have been something that made at least one person at some point think that she was black. But what?
In 1988 Oxford University Press published Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. 40 volumes to bring the works of a double minority of writers to the worlds attention. But what if a novelist celebrated as a pioneer of African-American women's literature turned out not to be black at all?. That seems to be the case with Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins, who wrote the novel Four Girls At Cottage City (1895) - the novel that actually gave inspiration for the the 1988-publication.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the editor of the Schomburg Library comments the discovery with these words: "I'm intrigued by the idea [...] that so many scholars have concluded that this woman was black, and it certainly will be interesting for us to figure out why".
I would like to know that too. There must have been something that made at least one person at some point think that she was black. But what?
