Black Ice (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Lorene Cary
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The early 1970’s and 1989
- Setting: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Concord, New Hampshire
- Principal Characters: Lorene Cary, Mr. Price, Ricky Lockhart, Mr. Hawley, Carol Hamilton Cary, John W. Cary
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Girls, Maturation or coming of age, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, Adolescence, Gender roles, Class consciousness, Schools or school life, 1980’s, New England, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
- Locales: Concord, NH, Philadelphia, PA
Form and Content
African American literature has a strong tradition of autobiography that has been sustained by such artistic forms as slave narratives and the blues as well as by more Eurocentric examples of the genre. Within that tradition, women’s accounts of their own history are of particular significance and constitute a crucial expression of the African American experience. Their significance derives from the historical status of women, generally considered, and from the relation of this marginalized status to that of women who were already members of a marginalized...
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