{"product_id":"paper-heroines-women-writers-in-conversation-and-community-across-the-sea-islands-1838-1902-9781643365367","title":"Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaper Heroines, \u003c\/i\u003e Mollie Barnes studies the ways women represented their own and one another's lives in their personal diaries and their biographies of their contemporaries. By reading these women writers--Black and white, obscure and well-known--in conversation, Barnes presents entirely new portraits of these freedom fighters of the nineteenth-century South Carolina Lowcountry. Like feminist and anti-racist leaders in our own moment, the women in \u003ci\u003ePaper Heroines\u003c\/i\u003e were often flawed. White women reformers sometimes created tensions, silences, revisions, and erasures within their print-culture networks, obscuring the lives and contributions of Black women. Black women developed counternarratives and counternetworks as they sought to reclaim their own life histories. What emerges from Barnes's exploration of these textual conversations is a story of complicated relationships that reveal the dynamism of women's lives in a place and time that was equally tumultuous and consequential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMollie Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and vice president of the Margaret Fuller Society. She has published more than a dozen articles and book chapters on nineteenth-century women writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985630724370,"sku":"9781643365367","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_da68ed81-798e-4fc9-804e-f8727b8f0395.jpg?v=1769542099","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paper-heroines-women-writers-in-conversation-and-community-across-the-sea-islands-1838-1902-9781643365367","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}