Vashti Crutcher Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 126165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vashti Crutcher Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vashti Crutcher |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS V C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Worldview and the Use of the Near White Heroine in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces
I first became aware of Pauline Hopkins in 1976 while researching my dissertation, The Mulatto Woman as Major Female Character in Novels by Black Women: 1892-1937 (Lewis, 1981), in American Studies at the University of Iowa. I found a disturbing trend of the exclusive depiction of women of African descent in the works of Hopkins, Frances Ellen Harper, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Nella Larsen-a trend that can now include Harriet Wilson's (1859/1983)…
African Tradition in Toni Morrison's Sula
STERLING PLUMPP WROTE in a 1975 review that is a suitable black edifice that came before critical blueprints for it.1 He meant by that that critics measure black fiction according to a black aesthetic that uses touchstones such as assimilationism, combativeness, or a revolutionary emphasis for liberation. Plumpp also suggests that most critics stress the need for black writers to use black writing as a vehicle for teaching, and that they are most…
The Near-White Female in Frances Ellen Harper's Iola Leroy
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The Near-White Female in Frances Ellen Harper's Iola Leroy
African Tradition in Toni Morrison's Sula
STERLING PLUMPP WROTE in a 1975 review that is a suitable black edifice that came before critical blueprints for it.1 He meant by that that critics measure black fiction according to a black aesthetic that uses touchstones such as assimilationism, combativeness, or a revolutionary emphasis for liberation. Plumpp also suggests that most critics stress the need for black writers to use black writing as a vehicle for teaching, and that they are most…
Worldview and the Use of the Near White Heroine in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces
I first became aware of Pauline Hopkins in 1976 while researching my dissertation, The Mulatto Woman as Major Female Character in Novels by Black Women: 1892-1937 (Lewis, 1981), in American Studies at the University of Iowa. I found a disturbing trend of the exclusive depiction of women of African descent in the works of Hopkins, Frances Ellen Harper, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Nella Larsen-a trend that can now include Harriet Wilson's (1859/1983)…
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