Changing our own words : essays on criticism, theory, and writing by Black women / Cheryl A. Wall, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wall, Cheryl A., editor.

Rutgers University Press, publisher.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Criticism and interpretation.

Morrison, Toni.

Walker, Alice, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.

Walker, Alice.

Walker, Alice, 1944-.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc--Congresses.

American literature.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc--Congresses.

African American women--Intellectual life--Congresses.

African American women.

African American women--Intellectual life.

Women and literature--United States--Congresses.

Women and literature.

African American women in literature.

American literature--Women authors.

American literature--African American authors.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

African American women in literature--Congresses.

African Americans in literature--Congresses.

African Americans in literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 253 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Essays on criticism, theory, and writing by Black women

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick and London : Rutgers University Press, ©1989.

Summary:

Writing by and about black women - an activity once regarded as marginal - has become essential to any consideration of the role of literature in society. Black women's writing raises issues of race, class, and gender, and questions the formation of the literary canon, the creation and maintenance of tradition, and the role of the media in controlling perceptions of what matters.

Contents:

Reading family matters / Deborah E. McDowell

The permanent obliquity of an in(pha)llibly straight / Hortense J. Spillers

Allegories of Black female desire / Claudia Tate

But what do we think we're doing anyway / Barbara Christian

What is your nation? / Abena P.A. Busia

Living on the line / Gloria T. Hull

I shop therefore I am / Susan Willis

Speaking in tongues, dialogism, and the Black woman writer's literary tradition / Mae Gwendolyn Henderson

Black feminist theory and the representation of the "other" / Valerie Smith.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held at Rutgers University in October 1987.

"Copyright ©1989 by Rutgers, The State University"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0813514622

0813514630

OCLC:

19458361