Autobiography as activism : three Black women of the Sixties /

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A study of three Black Power narratives as instruments for radical social change.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Perkins, Margo V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2000.
Series:Sixties--primary documents and personal narratives, 1960-1974.
Subjects:
Davis, Angela Y. > (Angela Yvonne), > 1944- > Angela Davis.
Brown, Elaine, > 1943- > Taste of power.
Shakur, Assata.
Shakur, Assata
1900-1999
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American women political activists > Biography > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography > African American authors.
African American women in literature.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Prose américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Femmes activistes noires américaines > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noires américaines > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
African American women in literature
African American women > Intellectual life
African Americans > Biography
American prose literature > African American authors
American prose literature > Women authors
Autobiography > African American authors
Autobiography > Women authors
Women and literature
Frau
United States
Schwärze
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "I am we": Black women activists writing autobiography
  • Literary antecedents in the struggle for freedom
  • On becoming: Activists' reflections on their formative experiences
  • Autobiography as political/personal Intervention
  • Gender and power dynamics in 1960s
  • Black nationalist struggle
  • Reading intertextually: Black power narratives then and now.

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