Research Catalog

Title

Reading Black, reading feminist : a critical anthology / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Publication

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Meridian Book, c1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Description

ix, 534 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• African American women in literature
• African Americans in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Art and such / Zora Neale Hurston -- Postscript : the mark of Zora / Stetson Kennedy -- "The darkened eye restored" : notes toward a literary history of Black women / Mary Helen Washington -- The highs and the lows of Black feminist criticism / Barbara Christian -- Variations on negation and the heresy of Black feminist creativity / Michele Wallace -- Some implications of womanist theory / Sherley Anne Williams -- The quicksands of representation : rethinking Black cultural politics / Hazel V. Carby -- "The changing same" : generational connections and Black women novelists / Deborah E. McDowell -- Speaking in tongues : dialogics, dialectics, and the Black woman writer's literary tradition / Mae Gwendolyn Henderson -- The re(a)d and the Black / Barbara E. Johnson -- Facing the camera's eye : Black and white terrain in women's drama / Timothy Murray -- My statue, my self : autobiographical writings of Afro-American women / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Euphemism, understatement, and the passive voice : a genealogy of Afro-American poetry / Barbara E. Johnson -- "Loopholes of retreat" : architecture and ideology in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Valerie Smith -- The souls of Black women folk in the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois / Nellie Y. McKay -- "An order of constancy" : notes on Brooks and the feminine / Hortense J. Spillers -- Maya Angelou : the autobiographical statement updated / Selwyn R. Cudjoe -- Lorraine Hansberry : uncommon warrior / Jewelle L. Gomez -- Our lady : Sonia Sanchez and the writing of a Black renaissance / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Gloria Naylor's geography : community, class, and patriarchy in The women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills / Barbara Christian -- Segregated lives : Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah / John Shoptaw -- Autoethnography : the an-archic style of Dust tracks on a road / Françoise Lionnet -- Maternal narratives : "cruel enough to stop the blood" / Marianne Hirsch -- Romance, marginality, and matrilineage : The color purple and Their eyes were watching God / Molly Hite -- Writing the subject : reading The color purple / Bell Hooks -- The future of female : Octavia Butler's mother lode / Dorothy Allison -- Interviews: Rita Dove. Jamaica Kincaid.

Call Number

JFE 91-29

ISBN

0452010454

LCCN

90035286

OCLC

• 21375690
• NYPG91-B5026

Title

Reading Black, reading feminist : a critical anthology / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Imprint

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Meridian Book, c1990.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Research Call Number

JFE 91-29

Sc D 97-803