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An engaging study of Black Feminism as expressed through literature
written by and about Black girlsIn Light and Legacies: Stories of
Black Girlhood and Liberation, author Janaka Lewis examines Black
girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to
the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary
literature has long remained underexplored. Through this literary
history of "Black Girl Magic," Lewis offers one of the first
studies in this rapidly growing field of study. Light and Legacies
poignantly showcases the activist dimensions of creative literature
through work by women writers such as Toni Morrison and Toni Cade.
As vectors of protest, these stories reflect historical events
while also creating an enduring space of liberation and expression.
The book provides didactic and reflective portrayals of the Black
experience—an experience which has long been misunderstood. In a
work both enlightening and personal, Lewis brilliantly weaves
accounts of her own journey in conjunction with the liberating
stories that shaped her and so many others.
An engaging study of Black Feminism as expressed through literature
written by and about Black girlsIn Light and Legacies: Stories of
Black Girlhood and Liberation, author Janaka Lewis examines Black
girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to
the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary
literature has long remained underexplored. Through this literary
history of "Black Girl Magic," Lewis offers one of the first
studies in this rapidly growing field of study. Light and Legacies
poignantly showcases the activist dimensions of creative literature
through work by women writers such as Toni Morrison and Toni Cade.
As vectors of protest, these stories reflect historical events
while also creating an enduring space of liberation and expression.
The book provides didactic and reflective portrayals of the Black
experience—an experience which has long been misunderstood. In a
work both enlightening and personal, Lewis brilliantly weaves
accounts of her own journey in conjunction with the liberating
stories that shaped her and so many others.
While narratives of enslavement have become more central to
conversations about African American women's writing, this book
first discusses the genre of narratives of freedom and then
examines women's relationships to the community as they seek to
illustrate a collective free identity. I argue that these texts
represent a sense of civil rights that emerges prior even to the
ideas of racial uplift that reached a height for women in the late
nineteenth century and moved into the twentieth century. Under the
umbrella of freedom narratives, this book also reads black women's
narratives of education, individual progress, marriage and family,
labor, and intellectual commitments to see how they both reflect
and produce national and community rebuilding projects. I argue
that black women define freedom through all of the means listed
above, but what is most significant for the purposes of their
writing is freedom to choose their paths and to tell their own
stories, in their own words and on their own terms.
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