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Light and legacies : stories of Black girlhood and liberation
- Title
- Light and legacies : stories of Black girlhood and liberation / Janaka Bowman Lewis.
- Author
- Lewis, Janaka Bowman, 1981-
- Publication
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Description
- 164 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- In Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman 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 that has long been misunderstood. In a work both enlightening and personal, Lewis brilliantly weaves accounts of her own journey together with the liberating stories that shaped her and so many others. --
- Series Statement
- Cultures of resistance series
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographic references (pages [153]-160) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: The Gift -- Introduction: Remember: Requiem for Black Girls -- Chapter 1. Imagine: Black Girlhood from Play to Possibility -- Chapter 2. Dream: Poetics and Possibilities in Black Girlhood Aesthetics -- Chapter 3. Move: Girlhood and Social Protest -- Interlude -- Chapter 4. Create: On Radical Creativity as a Movement -- Chapter 5. Build: From Black Girl Magic to Afrofutures -- Epilogue: Reading Play as Resistance -- Appendix: A Blackgirl Booklist -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-1080
- ISBN
- 9781643363868
- 1643363867
- 1643363859
- 9781643363851
- OCLC
- 1378170440
- Author
- Lewis, Janaka Bowman, 1981- author.
- Title
- Light and legacies : stories of Black girlhood and liberation / Janaka Bowman Lewis.
- Publisher
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cultures of resistance series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographic references (pages [153]-160) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-1080