Research Catalog

Title

Pearl Cleage and free womanhood : essays on her prose works / edited by Tikenya Foster-Singletary and Aisha Francis ; forewords by Pearl Cleage and Tayari Jones.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Foster-Singletary, Tikenya S.
• Foster-Singletary, Tikenya S.,
• Francis, Aisha,
• Francis, Aisha.

Description

viii, 205 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This collection of essays examines popular writer Pearl Cleage's work, it is the first book-length consideration of a writer and activist whose bold perspectives on social justice, race and gender have been influential for several decades. The book includes an in-depth interview with the author and a foreword by Tayari Jones"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

Cleage, Pearl > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword : these pages are my proof / Pearl Cleage -- Foreword / Tayari Jones -- An "urban oasis" : Pearl Cleage's West End imaginary / Margaret T. McGehee -- Over the rainbow : finding home in West End Atlanta / Rhonda M. Collier -- Being neighborly : performance in Seen it all and done the rest / Shanna L. Smith -- What looks like new : narrative call for social change / RaShell R. Smith-Spears -- Critical thinking is for everyone : social work as the praxis of communal love in I wish I had a red dress / Aisha Francis -- An ode to black feminism : reciprocal empowerment and anti-sexism in I wish I had a red dress and Some things I never thought I'd do / Monica L. Melton -- Shattering silence : Pearl Cleage and black female sexual empowerment / Sandra C. Duvivier -- Teaching feminist lessons in Late bus to Mecca / Ama S. Wattley -- Pearl Cleage as a dirty realist / Kelly DeLong -- The blue, psychosis, and the black arts movement in Bourbon at the border / Ladrica Menson-Furr -- Social mediation : Pearl Cleage and the digital divide / Sheila Smith McKoy -- In context : teaching Pearl Cleage in Southwest Atlanta / Tikenya Foster-Singletary -- Backtalk : respectability as repression and Pearl Cleage's incitement to discource / Alexia Williams -- A conversation with Pearl Cleage / Tikenya Foster-Singletary and Aisha Francis.

ISBN

• 9780786465866 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786465867 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012010111

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library