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- Paperback Edition
- ISBN: 978-1-55861-020-0
- Publication Date: 01-01-1990
- Page Count: 432
- Categories: Activism, African/African American, Education, Fiction, History, Memoir/Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry, Race/Ethnicity
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FRANCES SMITH FOSTER is a Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies, the former director of the Emory Institute for Women's Studies, and the current chair of the English Department. She has received fellowships from institutions including Fulbright, the Harvard Divinity School, the W. E. B. DuBois Institute at Harvard, and the International Theological Center.
A Brighter Coming Day
Introduction by Frances Smith Foster
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known and best loved African-American poet of her time, as well as a teacher and lecturer on abolition, suffrage, education, and many other topics. This anthology contains all of her extant poetry and a generous selection of prose and letters, and provides moving portraits of suffering under slavery, as well as of freedom, love, infidelity, poverty, and heroism.
"This anthology . . . not only provides the first modern biography of Harper, but also illuminates her connection to . . . 20th-century writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison."
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