The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780521858885
ISBN-13 : 0521858887
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature by : Angelyn Mitchell

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 673
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ISBN-10 : 9780143130673
ISBN-13 : 0143130676
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by : Hollis Robbins

A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as lesser-known writers like Ella Sheppard, who offers a firsthand account of life in the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. Taken together, these incredible works insist that the writing of African American women writers be read, remembered, and addressed. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Birds of Opulence

The Birds of Opulence
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9780813166933
ISBN-13 : 0813166934
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Birds of Opulence by : Crystal Wilkinson

A lyrical exploration of love and loss, this book centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern Black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona. The residents of Opulence struggle with vexing relationships to the land, to one another, and to their own sexuality. As the members of the youngest generation watch their mothers and grandmothers pass away, they live with the fear of going mad themselves and must fight to survive. The author offers up Opulence and its people in lush, poetic detail. It is a world of magic, conjuring, signs, and spells, but also of harsh realities that only love - and love that's handed down - can conquer.

Black Women Writers (1950-1980)

Black Women Writers (1950-1980)
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9780385171250
ISBN-13 : 0385171250
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Women Writers (1950-1980) by : Mari Evans

This unique volume provides each writers reflection on her work, an evaluation of that writer by two perceptive critics, and detailed biographical and bibliographical data. Included are Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and ten other outstanding writers.

African American Women Writers in New Jersey, 1836-2000

African American Women Writers in New Jersey, 1836-2000
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Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015056888590
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Synopsis African American Women Writers in New Jersey, 1836-2000 by : Sibyl E. Moses

Sibyl E. Moses identifies and documents the lives, intellectual contributions, and publications of over one hundred African American women writers in the Garden State from 1836 through 2000. In addition to biographical and bibliographical information for each autho, photographs of the writers as well as citations for their published pamphlets, books, reports, and articles are provided. The text is enchanced with characteristic excerpts from the poetry and prose of selected writers. The two appendixes highlight the distribution of African American women writers in New Jersey both by city or town, and by genre.

African American Women Writers

African American Women Writers
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Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000044010720
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Synopsis African American Women Writers by : Brenda Wilkinson

Discusses the lives and work of such notable African American women authors as: Phillis Wheatley, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Terry McMillan.

Worrying the Line

Worrying the Line
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 0807855863
ISBN-13 : 9780807855867
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Worrying the Line by : Cheryl A. Wall

In blues music, "worrying the line" is the technique of breaking up a phrase by changing pitch, adding a shout, or repeating words in order to emphasize, clarify, or subvert a moment in a song. Cheryl A. Wall applies this term to fiction and nonfiction wr

Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing

Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780333985243
ISBN-13 : 0333985249
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing by : Gina Wisker

This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.

Ayiti

Ayiti
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Publisher : Grove Press
Total Pages : 117
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ISBN-10 : 9780802165732
ISBN-13 : 0802165737
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Ayiti by : Roxane Gay

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist, a powerful short story collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new life but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood. Roxane Gay is an award-winning literary voice praised for her fearless and vivid prose, and her debut collection Ayiti exemplifies the raw talent that made her “one of the voices of our age” (National Post, Canada). Praise for Ayiti “Highly dimensioned characters and unforgettable moments. . . . Dismantling the glib misconceptions of her complex ancestral home, Gay cuts and thrills. Readers will find her powerful first book difficult to put down.” —Booklist “The themes explored in Gay’s nonfiction, such as the transactional nature of violence and the ways in which stereotypes of poverty add another layer of dehumanization, are just as potent here. Even her more lyrical mode is filtered through a keen sense of the lost promise of one country and the blinkered privilege of the other. It’s Gay’s unflinching directness—the sense that her characters are in the room with you, telling it like it is—that makes her irresistible.” —Vogue “A set of brief, tart stories mostly set amid the Haitian-American community and circling around themes of violation, abuse, and heartbreak . . . This book set the tone that still characterizes much of Gay’s writing: clean, unaffected, allowing the (often furious) emotions to rise naturally out of calm, declarative sentences. That gives her briefest stories a punch even when they come in at two pages or fewer, sketching out the challenges of assimilation in terms of accents, meals, or ‘What You Need to Know About a Haitian Woman’. . . . This debut amply contains the righteous energy that drives all her work.” —Kirkus Reviews

African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition

African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition
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Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015074296826
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Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition by : Tracey L. Walters

This book explores the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature.