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Black Women's Labor and the Melodrama of Class Mobility in Sutton Griggs's "Overshadowed"
Ist Teil von
African American review, 2012-03, Vol.45 (1/2), p.49-64
Ort / Verlag
Saint Louis: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
African American spiritual1 For the past two decades, scholarship in class studies has traced the literary representation of work in Gilded Age America.2 As scholars note, struggles over the modes and compensations of labor often emerged through the pages of late nineteenth-century newspapers, religious tracts, and novels, as writers vied for cultural influence to shape readers' sentiments toward work and class. Even as scholars including Arlene Elder, Wilson Jeremiah Moses, and Finnie Coleman have aimed to restore attention to the author's oeuvre, Griggs's second novel is "overshadowed" by critical attention to his first, Imperium in Imperio (1899).5 In each of his five novels, published between 1899 and 1908, as well as his nonfiction social theory, Griggs (1872-1933) highlights how African Americans pursue and interpret their work, particularly within racially proscribed labor markets.6 Yet Overshadowed places work at its center by following Erma and John Wysong, siblings who must forego their life of relative comfort to seek self-sustaining work after their parents' death.