What is the negro woman's story?: Negro Story Magazine and the dialogue of feminist voices

<p>Too often, writing by and about Black women has been sidelined in scholarly work about African American writing prior to the post-World War II era. This is especially true in the recently emergent school of work surrounding the Chicago Black Renaissance. This thesis focuses on a single literary magazine, Negro Story, in order to explore the complexity of Black female identity in the 1940s through the work of the female editors and contributors to the periodical. These contributors come from varied racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, but their work takes on a cohesive quality as the stories are constantly in conversation with one another. Negro Story represents a unique opportunity for women to assert themselves as both activists and artisans, and the stories collected here pave the way for an emergent Black female voice over the second half of the twentieth century.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Convery, Maureen

Contributors dc:contributor

• Robin Lucy
• Abby Coykendall

• Arts and Humanities
• English Language and Literature

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/801

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2186