No crystal stair : visions of race and sex in Black women's fiction / Gloria Wade-Gayles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade, author.

Contributor:

Pilgrim Press (N.Y.), publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--Women authors.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

African American women in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxii, 280 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Pilgrim Press, 1984.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Beverly Guy-Sheftall

A personal response by Zillah Eisenstein

To the reader

The narrow space of race, the dark enclosure of sex: the case for this book

A historical overview: Black women in White America, 1946-1976

The halo and the hardships: Black women as mothers and sometimes as wives

"Going nowhere immediate": Black women of hopelessness

"Journeying from can't to can" and sometimes back to "can't": Black women of challenge and contradiction

Giving birth to self: the quests for wholeness of Sula Mae Peace and Meridian Hill

The space and the enclosure: the collective vision of Black women

Afterword by Alton Hornsbym, Jr.

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index.

Notes:

'Copyright ©1984 by The Pilgrim Press"--verso of title page.

Winner of the Pilgrim Press manuscript competition--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has inscription from author to Banks: "For Joanna Banks--a special embrace. You are obviously a strong sister! Gloria Wade Gayles 12/13/93" Also, slip from prescription pad laid in.

ISBN:

0829807144 :

0829807098

OCLC:

10324923