front cover of New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000
New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000
Barbara Christian. Edited by Gloria Bowles, M. Giulia Fabi, and Arlene Keizer
University of Illinois Press, 2007

A passionate and celebrated pioneer in her own words

New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 collects a selection of essays and reviews from Barbara Christian, one of the founding voices in black feminist literary criticism. Published between the release of her second landmark book Black Feminist Criticism and her death, these writings include eloquent reviews, evaluations of black feminist criticism as a discipline, reflections on black feminism in the academy, and essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and others.

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front cover of Wild Women in the Whirlwind
Wild Women in the Whirlwind
Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance
Edited by Joanne M. Braxton and Andree Nicola McLaughlin
Rutgers University Press, 1989
"Pays an impressive tribute to the new renaissance in African-American literature."
--New York Times Book Review

"The cultural and literary achievements of black American women are examined and celebrated in some 20 enjoyable, erudite essays by prominent scholars, critics, and activists."
--Publishers Weekly

This book is the first comprehensive collection of critical and theoretical essays to explore the literary and multi-cultural traditions of Black American women in many genres over a broad span of time. The essays explore cultural and literary experience in a wide context and offer a variety of critical theoretical constructs in which to view that experience. The editors have written excellent introductions providing both historical and comparative discussions of the contemporary literary renaissance. The book also includes a valuable bibliography of selected English-language works by Black women in the Americas from the 1970s to the present.
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