Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing
by Houston A. Baker, Jr.
University of Chicago Press, 1990
Cloth: 978-0-226-03522-2 | Paper: 978-0-226-03523-9
Library of Congress Classification PS153.N5B28 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.99287
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.
"Brilliant, and tenderly riveted to gratitude as an indispensable facet of analysis, Houston Baker arrives, yet again, bearing the loveliest flowers of his devotion and delight: thank God he's here!"—June Jordan
"Brilliant, and tenderly riveted to gratitude as an indispensable facet of analysis, Houston Baker arrives, yet again, bearing the loveliest flowers of his devotion and delight: thank God he's here!"—June Jordan
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