In "Writing through Jane Crow, " Ayesha Hardison examines
African American literature and its representation of black women
during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s
and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation--a time of
transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts
movement and between World War II and the modern civil rights
movement--black writers also addressed the effects of "Jane Crow,"
the interconnected racial, gender, and sexual oppression that black
women experienced. Hardison maps the contours of this literary
moment with the understudied works of well-known writers like
Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, and Richard Wright
as well as the writings of neglected figures like Curtis Lucas,
Pauli Murray, and Era Bell Thompson.
By shifting her focus from the canonical works of male writers
who dominated the period, the author recovers the work of black
women writers. Hardison shows how their texts anticipated the
renaissance of black women's writing in later decades and initiates
new conversations on the representation of women in texts by black
male writers. She draws on a rich collection of memoirs, music,
etiquette guides, and comics to further reveal the texture and
tensions of the era.
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