Black Women’s Literature of the Americas

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000479706
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Women’s Literature of the Americas by : Tonia Leigh Wind

Download or read book Black Women’s Literature of the Americas written by Tonia Leigh Wind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck between a new life in the Americas, and their connections to their African ancestral roots and a wider diasporic community. The book investigates how Black women in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the United States, and Brazil turned to their spiritual beliefs as a tool of resilience and resistance. These “griots” and “goddesses” are forced to negotiate complex issues such as race, gender, identity, maternity, sexuality, and belonging, from a liminal position that looks to both settle roots in a foreign land, and stay connected to ancestors and the Sacred. As these Black female protagonists turn to (re)memory and ancestral knowledge to map their connection with the Divine, they become mediators of worlds, and hybrid griots surpassing temporal and geographical boundaries. With important reflections on Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone, and Ana Maria Gonçalves’s Um Defeito de Cor, amongst other texts, this book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of comparative literature, religious studies, gender studies, and African diaspora studies.

The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature

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Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature by : Valerie Lee

Download or read book The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature written by Valerie Lee and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2006 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing Pulitzer Prize winners Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Rita Dove, national icons Maya Angelou and Nikki African Giovanni, and prominent cult figures Zora Neale Hurston and Octavia Butler, African American women's literature is the one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today. This is the first comprehensive anthology of African American women's literature. This is the only book that covers all historical periods, from the 18th century up through the early years of the 21st century; and all genres: from poems, essays, journal entries, and short stories to novels and black feminist criticism. An exciting and interested reader for anyone who wants a comprehensive package of African-American women's writings.

Reading Contemporary African American Literature

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739188798
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Contemporary African American Literature by : Beauty Bragg

Download or read book Reading Contemporary African American Literature written by Beauty Bragg and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni Morrison’s mythic fiction to Wahida Clark’s street lit.

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521858887
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature by : Angelyn Mitchell

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature written by Angelyn Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.

Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038241
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life by : Bert James Loewenberg

Download or read book Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life written by Bert James Loewenberg and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Artistry of Anger

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860190
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis The Artistry of Anger by : Linda M. Grasso

Download or read book The Artistry of Anger written by Linda M. Grasso and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. Exploring how black and white nineteenth-century women writers defined, expressed, and dramatized anger, Grasso reconceptualizes antebellum women's writing and illuminates an unrecognized tradition of discontent in American literature. She maintains that two equally powerful forces shaped this tradition: women's anger at their exclusion from the democratic promise of America, and the cultural prohibition against its public articulation. Grasso challenges the common notion that nineteenth-century women's writing is confined to domestic themes and shows instead how women channeled their anger into art that addresses complex political issues such as slavery, nation-building, gender arrangements, and race relations. Cutting across racial and genre boundaries, she considers works by Lydia Maria Child, Maria W. Stewart, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Wilson as superb examples of the artistry of angry expression. Transforming their anger through literary imagination, these writers bequeathed their vision of an alternative America both to their contemporaries and to subsequent generations.

Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209901X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century by : Nazera Sadiq Wright

Download or read book Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century written by Nazera Sadiq Wright and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship.

Black Women in America: H-Q

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
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Book Synopsis Black Women in America: H-Q by : Darlene Clark Hine

Download or read book Black Women in America: H-Q written by Darlene Clark Hine and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides biographies and topical essays discussing the important roles Black women have played in American history.

Saints, Sinners, Saviors

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137051795
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Saints, Sinners, Saviors by : T. Harris

Download or read book Saints, Sinners, Saviors written by T. Harris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature posits strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in several literary works of the twentieth century. Authors of these works draw upon popular images of African American women in producing what they believe to be safe literary representations. Instead, strength becomes a problematic trait, at times a disease, in many characters in which it appears. It has a detrimental impact on the relatives and neighbors of such women as well as on the women themselves. The pattern of portraying women characters as strong in African American literature has become so pronounced that it has stifled the literature.

Writing through Jane Crow

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813935946
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing through Jane Crow by : Ayesha K. Hardison

Download or read book Writing through Jane Crow written by Ayesha K. Hardison and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation—a time of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement and between World War II and the modern civil rights movement—black writers also addressed the effects of "Jane Crow," the interconnected racial, gender, and sexual oppression that black women experienced. Hardison maps the contours of this literary moment with the understudied works of well-known writers like Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, and Richard Wright as well as the writings of neglected figures like Curtis Lucas, Pauli Murray, and Era Bell Thompson. By shifting her focus from the canonical works of male writers who dominated the period, the author recovers the work of black women writers. Hardison shows how their texts anticipated the renaissance of black women’s writing in later decades and initiates new conversations on the representation of women in texts by black male writers. She draws on a rich collection of memoirs, music, etiquette guides, and comics to further reveal the texture and tensions of the era. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611177499
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Book Synopsis Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by : Geneva Cobb Moore

Download or read book Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature written by Geneva Cobb Moore and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth examination of Black women's experiences as portrayed in literature throughout American history Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several centuries. Moore traces black women writers' creation of feminine and maternal metaphors of power in literature from the colonial-era work of Phillis Wheatley to the postmodern efforts of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Through their characters Moore shows how these writers re-created the identity of black women and challenge existing rules shaping their subordinate status and behavior. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and other social science theory, Moore examines the maternal iconography and counter-hegemonic narratives by which these writers responded to oppressive conventions of race, gender, and authority. Moore grounds her account in studies of Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston. All these authors, she contends, wrote against invisibility and powerlessness by developing and cultivating a personal voice and an individual story of vulnerability, nurturing capacity, and agency that confounded prevailing notions of race and gender and called into question moral reform. In these nine writers' construction of feminine images—real and symbolic—Moore finds a shared sense of the historically significant role of black women in the liberation struggle during slavery, the Jim Crow period, and beyond. A foreword is offer by Andrew Billingsley, a pioneering sociologist and a leading scholar in African American studies.

Black Resonance

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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813562511
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Resonance by : Emily J. Lordi

Download or read book Black Resonance written by Emily J. Lordi and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women’s singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith’s blues and Richard Wright’s neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson’s gospel music and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers. The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, Black Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century’s most beloved and challenging voices.

Sister Citizen

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300165412
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Sister Citizen by : Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Download or read book Sister Citizen written by Melissa V. Harris-Perry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs/div

A Black Women's History of the United States

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Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807033553
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis A Black Women's History of the United States by : Daina Ramey Berry

Download or read book A Black Women's History of the United States written by Daina Ramey Berry and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)—the perfect companion to An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States. An empowering and intersectional history that centers the stories of African American women across 400+ years, showing how they are—and have always been—instrumental in shaping our country. In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the United States to African American women of today. A Black Women’s History of the United States reaches far beyond a single narrative to showcase Black women’s lives in all their fraught complexities. Berry and Gross prioritize many voices: enslaved women, freedwomen, religious leaders, artists, queer women, activists, and women who lived outside the law. The result is a starting point for exploring Black women’s history and a testament to the beauty, richness, rhythm, tragedy, heartbreak, rage, and enduring love that abounds in the spirit of Black women in communities throughout the nation.

Sturdy Black Bridges

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Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Sturdy Black Bridges by : Roseann P. Bell

Download or read book Sturdy Black Bridges written by Roseann P. Bell and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Activist Sentiments

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252076648
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Activist Sentiments by : Pier Gabrielle Foreman

Download or read book Activist Sentiments written by Pier Gabrielle Foreman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships

The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-century Black Women Writers

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ISBN 13 : 9780195052671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (526 download)

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Book Synopsis The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-century Black Women Writers by : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)

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