Cultural sites of critical insight : philosophy, aesthetics, and African American and Native American women's writings / edited by Angela L. Cotten and Christa Davis Acampora.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Acampora, Christa Davis, 1967-

Cotten, Trystan T., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women authors--Aesthetics.

African American women authors.

African American women in literature.

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

American literature.

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

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

Feminism in literature.

Indian women authors--Aesthetics.

Indian women authors.

Indian women in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 216 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together criticism on both African American and Native American women writers, this book offers fresh perspectives on art and beauty, truth, justice, community, and the making of a good and happy life. The essays draw on interdisciplinary, feminist, and comparative methods in the works of writers such as Toni Morrison, Leslie Silko, Alice Walker, Linda Hogan, Paula Gunn Allen, Luci Tapahonso, Phillis Wheatley, and Sherley Anne Williams, making them more accessible for critical consideration in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, and critical theory. The contributors formulate unique frameworks for interpreting the multiple levels of complex, cultural play between Native American and African American women writers in America, and pave the way for innovative hermeneutic possibilities for reassessing writers of both traditions.

Contents:

On the "res" and in the "hood" : making cultures, leaving legacies / Angela L. Cotten

Self-help, Indian style? Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers of the light, womanist self-recovery and the politics of transformation / Ana Louise Keating

Making the awakening hers : Phiillis Wheatley and the transposition of African spirituality to Christian religiosity / Elizabeth J. West

"Any woman's blues" : Sherley Anne WIlliams and the blues aesthetic / Michael A. Antonucci

Through the mirror : re-Surfacing and self-articulation in Linda Hogan's Solar storms / Ellen L. Arnold

Red-black center of Alice Walker's Meridian : asserting a Cherokee womanist sensibility / Barbara S. Tracy

Womanist interventions in historical materialism / Angela L. Cotten

"Both the law and its transgression" : Toni Morrison's Paradise and "post"-Black feminism / Noelle Morrissette

Luci Tapahonso's "Leda and the cowboy" : a gynocratic, Navajo response to Yeats's "Leda and the swan" / Maggie Romigh

Mother times two : a double take on a gynocentric justice song / Margot R. Reynolds.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index.

ISBN:

9780791480571

0791480577

9781429465700

1429465700

OCLC:

123415297