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Wild Women in the Whirlwind : Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance /
A comprehensive collection of critical and theoretical essays exploring the literary and many cultural traditions of Black American women in a multitude of forms (fiction, poetry, autobiography, drama, political essay, oral history) from Phillis Wheatley (1761) to the present. The essays explore cul...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
1990.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Foremothers
- Black women and music : a historical legacy of struggle / Angela Y. Davis
- The difficult miracle of Black poetry in America or something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley / June Jordan
- Sojourner Truth : archetypal Black feminist / Gloria I. Joseph
- Establishing the identity of the author of Our Nig / David Ames Curtis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- A poet's retreat : the diaries of Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914) / Joanne M. Braxton
- An early twentieth-century problem play of life in Black America : Angelina Grimke's Rachel (1916) / Robert J. Fehrenbach
- "Up the country ..." and still singing the blues : Sippie Wallace / Daphne Duval Harrison
- This little light of mine : dramatizing the life of Fannie Lou Hamer / Billie Jean Young
- Part II. Redefining the veil
- Black women, identity, and the quest for humanhood and wholeness : wild women in the whirlwind / Andree Nicola McLaughlin
- In search of women's voice : the woman novelist in Haiti / Regine Altagrâce Latortue
- The sexual mountain and Black women writers / Calvin Hernton
- The truth that never hurts : Black lesbians in fiction in the 1980s / Barbara Smith
- A laying on of hands : Black women writers exploring the roots of their folk and cultural tradition / Joanne V. Gabbin
- The autobiographies of Zora Neale Hurston and Gwendolyn Brooks : alternate versions of the Black female self / Nellie Y. McKay
- The silence and the song : toward a Black woman's history through a language of her own / Barbara Omolade
- Part III. Visions and re-visions
- Ancestral presence : the outraged mother figure in contemporary Afra-American writing / Joanne M. Braxton
- African tradition in Toni Morrison's Sula / Vashti Crutcher Lewis
- Somebody forgot to tell somebody something : African-American women's historical novels / Barbara Christian
- Voices beyond the veil : an interview of Toni Cade Bambara and Somia Sanchez / Zala Chandler
- Spirituality in the novels of Alice Walker : models, healing, and transformation, or when the spirit moves so do we / Rudolph P. Byrd
- Audre Lorde and matrilineal diaspora : "moving history beyond nightmare into structures for the future ..." / Chinosole
- A selected bibliography of English-language works by Black women of the Americas, 1970-1988 / Gale P. Jackson.