Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I: DEFINING BLACK FEMINIST CRITICISM
  • Introduction
  • 1. But What Do We Think We're Doing Anyway: The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of History (1989)
  • 2. What Celie Knows That You Should Know (1990)
  • 3. Fixing Methodologies: Beloved (1993)
  • 4. The Race for Theory (1987)
  • 5. Does Theory Play Well in the Classroom? (1996)
  • II: READING BLACK WOMEN WRITERS
  • Introduction
  • 6. Introduction to the Hazelely Family by Mrs. A.E. Johnson (1988)7. Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something: African-American Women's Historical Novels (1990)
  • 8. Gloria Naylor's Geography: Communiity, Class, and Partriarchy in The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills (1990)
  • 9. Being the Subject and the Object: Reading African-American Women's Novels (1993)
  • 10. Layered Rhythms: Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison (1994)
  • 11. There It Is: The Poetry of Jayne Cortez (1986)
  • 12. Conversations with the Universe (1989)
  • 13. Epic Achievement (1991)
  • 14. A Checkered Career (1992)15. Remembering Audre Lorde (1993)
  • III: BLACK FEMINIST CRITICISM IN THE ACADEMY
  • Introduction
  • 16. Being The Subjected Subject of Discourse (1990)
  • 17. Whose Canon Is It Anyway? (1994)
  • 18. A Rough Terrain: The Case of Shaping an Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers (1995)
  • 19. Diminishing Returns: Can Black Feminism(s) Survive the Academy? (1994)
  • 20. Camouflaging Race and Gender (1996)
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography of Works by Barbara Christian
  • Index