272 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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This work discusses a range of novels, short stories and essays by black American women writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present time. It begins with a survey of 19th-century black women's slave narratives, early sentimental novels and autobiographies and then focuses on six writers: Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Maya Angelou. The text... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Pioneering voices; Chapter 2 Harlem and theFirst Black Renaissance; Chapter 3 Zora Neale Hurston (b. 1891?/1901? – d. 1961) The search for a black female self; Chapter 4 Paule Marshall (b. 1929) and Audre Lorde (b. 1934) A celebration of infinite variety; Chapter 5 Maya Angelou (b. 1928) Autobiography: The creation of a positive black female self; Chapter 6 Toni Morrison (b. 1931) The power of the ancestors; Chapter 7 Alice Walker (b. 1944) The spiritual inheritance; Conclusion;
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Eva Lennox Wiliams
