Black American Women's Writings

Eva Lennox Birch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

1994
Prentice-Hall (Verlag)
978-0-7450-1612-2 (ISBN)

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Discusses a range of fiction and essays by black American women writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Beginning with a survey of 19th-century black women's slave narratives, the text then shows how six writers have developed the themes of their literary ancestors.

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 shows how these writers have developed the preoccupations, themes and narrative strategies of their literary ancestors.

Eva Lennox Wiliams

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;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.1994
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7450-1612-X / 074501612X
ISBN-13	978-0-7450-1612-2 / 9780745016122
Zustand	Neuware