Black Internationalist Feminism : Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 /

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'Black Internationalist Feminism' examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left and developed a distinct strand of feminism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Higashida, Cheryl
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women radicals.
Feminism and literature.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature > African American authors.
African American women > Intellectual life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Noires americaines > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Radicales > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Women radicals > United States > History > 20th century.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The negro question, the woman question, and the vital link: histories and institutions
  • Lorraine Hansberry's existentialist routes to black internationalist feminism
  • Rosalind on the black star line: Alice Childress, black minstrelsy, and Garveyite drag
  • Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the hemispheric woman
  • Audre Lorde revisited: nationalism and second-wave black feminism
  • Reading Maya Angelou, reading black internationalist feminism today.

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