In the past 20 years, black women writers have finally gained the recognition they deserve with African Americans such as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker--now bestsellers all over the world. But they did not come from nowhere. Since slaves were first taken from Africa to America in 1619, black women have been telling tales, singing songs, and speaking out. For the first time the full scope of their creativity is represented here, in, among others, the 18th-century enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley, the so-called ...
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In the past 20 years, black women writers have finally gained the recognition they deserve with African Americans such as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker--now bestsellers all over the world. But they did not come from nowhere. Since slaves were first taken from Africa to America in 1619, black women have been telling tales, singing songs, and speaking out. For the first time the full scope of their creativity is represented here, in, among others, the 18th-century enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley, the so-called "Genius of the South" Zora Neale Hurston, the political activist Angela Davis, the gifted generation of Audre Lorde and Gloria Naylor, and the contemporary voices of Ntozake Shange, Jamaica Kincaid, Toi Derricotte, and Ai. This is an essential text for newcomers and experts alike, combining a broad survey of African American women's writing with detail and insights by an author herself deeply involved in the tradition.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, near fine in VG yellow and orange decorative dj. the first history of black women writers in America, covering the writing of such writers as Phillis Wheatley-Sojourner Truth-Harriet 'Linda Brent' Jacobs-Harriet E. Wilson-Frances Harper and others. 230 pages; dust jacket art designed by David Tamura.
