The Africana Womanist Rhetoric of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

To read Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s corpus of poetry, oratory, and political activism through the lens of feminism is to erase the Afrocentric logics of her rhetoric, but examining her work through the lens of Afrocentricity broadly obscures her radical views on the role of women in society. Africana womanism offers a paradigm through which one can analyze her rhetoric in a way that honors her Blackness and her womanhood—an ethic she insisted on throughout her life. This article elucidates the theory of Africana womanism and highlights evidence of Africana womanist thought in the rhetoric of Watkins Harper, deepening our understanding of women’s contributions to the organizing work and activism of nineteenth-century Black Americans

Aesthetics · Art · Feminism · Literature · Poetry · Political rhetoric · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Gender Studies · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

• Come Colour My Rainbow

  Open Access•Ronald J Stephens, Maureen Keaveny et al.•Journal of Black Studies•2002

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• African Womanism

  Open Access•Nah Dove•Journal of Black Studies•1998

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• The White Women All Go for Sex

  C C O''Brien, Conor O’brien et al.•African American Review•2009

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• Frances Watkins (Harper), Harriet Tubman and the Rhetoric of Single Blessedness

  Andreá N Williams•Meridians•2014

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• The Cult of True Womanhood

  Open Access•Barbara Welter•American Quarterly•1966

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