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"Pays an impressive tribute to the new renaissance in African-American literature." --New York Times Book Review "The cultural and literary achievements of black American women are examined and celebrated in some 20 enjoyable, erudite essays by prominent scholars, critics, and activists." --Publishers Weekly This book is the first comprehensive collection of critical and theoretical essays to explore the literary and multi-cultural traditions of Black American women in many genres over a broad span of time. The essays explore cultural and literary experience in a wide context and offer a variety of critical theoretical constructs in which to view that experience. The editors have written excellent introductions providing both historical and comparative discussions of the contemporary literary renaissance. The book also includes a valuable bibliography of selected English-language works by Black women in the Americas from the 1970s to the present. Contributors: Angela Y. Davis, June Jordan, Gloria I. Joseph, David Ames Curtis, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Robert J. Fehrenbach, Daphne Duval Harrison, Billie Jean Young, Regine Altagrace Latortue, Calvin Hernton, Barbara Smith, Joanne V. Gabbin, Nellie Y. McKay, Barbara Omolade, Vashti Crutcher Lewis, Barbara Christian, Zala Chandler, Rudolph P. Byrd, Chinosole, Gale P. Jackson. Joanne M. Braxton is Cummings Professor of American Studies and English at the College of William and Mary and the author of Sometimes I Think of Maryland, a collection of poetry, and Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition. Andree Nicola McLaughlin is Professor or Humanities at Medgar Evers College/CUNY and author of Through the Barrel of Her Consciousness: Contemporary Black Women's Literature and Activism in Cross-Cultural Perspective.
Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a
strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with
everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to
vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and
sexualities have been the subject of countless public discourses,
black women's voices have been largely marginalized in these
discussions. In this groundbreaking collection, feminist scholars
from across the academy come together to correct this
omission--illuminating black female sexual desires marked by agency
and empowerment, as well as pleasure and pain, to reveal the ways
black women regulate their sexual lives.
Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a
strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with
everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to
vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and
sexualities have been the subject of countless public discourses,
black women's voices have been largely marginalized in these
discussions. In this groundbreaking collection, feminist scholars
from across the academy come together to correct this
omission--illuminating black female sexual desires marked by agency
and empowerment, as well as pleasure and pain, to reveal the ways
black women regulate their sexual lives.
Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the audience and the "mainstream" status of the renaissance in black women's writing and thus to pave the way for the future success of Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Sherley Anne Williams and perhaps even Toni Morrison. The Casebook promises to be a useful volume that will see wide use in the area where Angelou's first autobiography shows a continuing and flourishing readership, especially American autobiography, African American literature, Women's Studies/Gender Studies and Cross-Cultural Studies. Along with Braxton's introduction and the Claudia Tate interview, the selected essays provide a range of critical approaches to the text.
Perhaps more than any other single text, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings helped to establish the audience and the 'mainstream' status of the renaissance in black women's writing and thus to pave the way for the future success of Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Sherley Anne Williams and perhaps even Toni Morrison. The Casebook promises to be a useful volume that will see wide use in the area where Angelou's first autobiography shows a continuing and flourishing readrship, especially Americn autobiography, African American literature, Women's readrship, especially American autobiography, African American literature, Women's Studies/Gender Studies and Cross-Cultural Studies. Along with Braxton's introduction and the Claudia Tate interview, the selected essays provide a range of critical approaches to the text.
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