"Beatrice of Bayou Teche" is a work of great historical and artistic interest: a late-nineteenth-century novel by a white woman about a black woman artist-protagonist. As the introduction for this reprint edition shows, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones was the first white woman to take an extended interest in the intersection of creativity, race, and gender. In "Beatrice," Jones seeks to unveil the relationships between white and African Americans during the twenty years before the Civil War by following her mixed-race protagonist from her childhood as a slave in New Orleans through her career as a free woman and inspired painter and opera singer. "Beatrice" renders the white author's effort to find a place for the mixed-race woman in relation to paradigms of creativity that are not only gendered but racialized. In the process, it exposes the fault lines of ideology and literary convention that underlie attempts to negotiate issues of race, gender, and creativity in late nineteenth-century America.
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"Beatrice of Bayou Teche" is a work of great historical and artistic interest: a late-nineteenth-century novel by a white woman about a black woman artist-protagonist. As the introduction for this reprint edition shows, Alice Ilgenfritz Jones was the first white woman to take an extended interest in the intersection of creativity, race, and gender. In "Beatrice," Jones seeks to unveil the relationships between white and African Americans during the twenty years before the Civil War by following her mixed-race protagonist from her childhood as a slave in New Orleans through her career as a free woman and inspired painter and opera singer. "Beatrice" renders the white author's effort to find a place for the mixed-race woman in relation to paradigms of creativity that are not only gendered but racialized. In the process, it exposes the fault lines of ideology and literary convention that underlie attempts to negotiate issues of race, gender, and creativity in late nineteenth-century America.
Imprint | Bowling Green University Popular Press,US |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | June 2001 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | 2001 |
Introduction by | Thomas H. Fick (Professor of English, Southeastern Louisiana University, USA), Eva (Associate Professor of English Gold |
Authors | Alice Ilgenfritz Jones |
Dimensions | 181 x 114 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 430 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-87972-832-8 |
Barcode | 9780879728328 |
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LSN | 0-87972-832-9 |