Black Female Images in Iola Leroy

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210915.046How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Iola Leroy, Black female image, Rebels, Dedicators, Equality seekers

Abstract

Iola Leroy, the representative work of Frances Harper, is one of the first novels published by African American women. This novel mainly portrays three images of black women—rebels, dedicators and seekers for equality. They fought against slavery and racial discrimination in their own ways, or devoted their talents and energy to their race, or pursued educational equality and economic equality. Such new positive images, which are in sharp contrast to the negative stereotypes depicted in White American literature, form an important part of African American women literary tradition.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yan Lin
AU  - Weifeng Huang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/16
TI  - Black Female Images in Iola Leroy
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Modern Management and Education Research (MMER 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 207
EP  - 209
SN  - 2352-5398
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