- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- A portrayal of the black family in Frances E.W. Harper's Minnie's Sacrifice, Trial and Triumph and Iola Leroy, 2000
- Creator:
- Benton, Monica L.
- Date of Original:
- 2000-12-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This study examines three types of nineteenth-century black families in the fiction of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: the displaced family, the cohesive family and the reunited family. The study reflects how these African American families struggle for spiritual awareness, community involvement, and economic security before, during and after the Civil War. Three works are considered in this study: Minnie's Sacrifice (1859), Trial and Triumph (1887-88), and Iola Leroy (1892). The conclusions that were drawn from this study suggest that Harper strayed far from the typical nineteenth-century motifs in African American literature. Where writers of her time often focused on the exterior of the black experience, such as the Middle Passage and slavery, Harper's fiction focuses on the internal structure of the black family.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2000_benton_monica_l
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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