{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in African American Studies","slug":"new-books-in-african-american-studies-614218","podcast_index_feed_id":614218,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT9884742733","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/6ec4ef18-f161-11e8-aa0f-cb6d12c6835d/image/5571090387754d767d98f7128343781c.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1943,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T14:21:48.015468+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-african-american-studies-614218"},"episode":{"title":"Mollie Barnes, \"Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902\" (U South Carolina Press, 2026)","slug":"mollie-barnes-paper-heroines-women-writers-in-conversation-and-community-across-the-sea-islands-1838-1902-u-south-carolina-press-2026","published_at":"2026-06-04T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-african-american-studies-614218/mollie-barnes-paper-heroines-women-writers-in-conversation-and-community-across-the-sea-islands-1838-1902-u-south-carolina-press-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-african-american-studies-614218","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3923841905.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK3923841905.mp3","summary":"In Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902 (U South Carolina Press, 2026), Dr. 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, Dr. 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 Paper Heroines 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 counter-networks 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. Key terms and names is this episode include: close reading, archival silences, the peripheries, life writing, The Penn School, Port Royal, Beaufort, Combahee River, St. Helena, Relief Workers, Harriet Tubman, Fanny Kemble, Psyche, Teresa, Laura Towne, Charlotte Forten, Mr. Holland, and Sarah Hopkins Bradford. Guest: Dr. Mollie Barnes is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Beaufort, Vice President of the Margaret Fuller Society, and Vice President of Organizational Matters for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. 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