Black feminist cultural criticism / edited by Jacqueline Bobo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bobo, Jacqueline.

Series:

Keyworks in cultural studies ; 3.

Keyworks in cultural studies ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American arts.

Feminism and the arts--United States.

Feminism and the arts.

African American women artists.

Feminist criticism--United States.

Feminist criticism.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxv, 337 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.

Contents:

Toward a Black feminist criticism / Barbara Smith

New directions for Black feminist criticism / Deborah E. McDowell

But what do we think we're doing anyway: the state of Black feminist criticism(s) or my version of a little bit of history / Barbara Christian

Some reflections on the Negro actress: the tattered queens / Ruby Dee

Daughters of the dust / Jacqueline Bobo

Below the line: (re)calibrating the filmic gaze / C.A. Griffith

In my mother's house: Black feminist aesthetics, television, and A raisin in the sun / Sheri Parks

African-American women artists: an historical perspective / Arna Alexander Bontemps and Jacqueline Fonvielle-Bontemps

In search of a discourse and critique/s that center the art of Black women artists / Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis

In their own image / Kellie Jones

The freedom to say what she pleases: a conversation with Faith Ringgold / Melody Graulich and Mara Witzling

Black women and music: a historical legacy of struggle / Angela Y. Davis

Never trust a big butt and a smile / Tricia Rose

Divas declare a spoken-word revolution / Evelyn McDonnell

" A laying on of hands": transcending the city in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf / Carolyn Mitchell

The uses of the erotic: the erotic as power / Audre Lorde

African American quilts: paradigms of Black diversity / Cuesta Benberry

Harriet Powers: portrait of an African-American quilter / Gladys-Marie Fry

Empathy, energy, and eating: politics and power in The Black family dinner quilt cookbook / Sally bishop Shigley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-327) and index.

ISBN:

0631222391

0631222405

OCLC:

44683443