Autobiography as activism : three Black women of the Sixties / Margo V. Perkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perkins, Margo V.

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies Visionary women writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- Angela Davis.

Davis, Angela Y.

Brown, Elaine, 1943- Taste of power.

Brown, Elaine.

Shakur, Assata. Assata.

Shakur, Assata.

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

American prose literature.

African American women political activists--Biography--History and criticism.

African American women political activists.

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

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.

African American women.

African Americans--Biography--History and criticism.

African Americans.

Autobiography--African American authors.

Autobiography.

African American women in literature.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of three Black Power narratives as instruments for radical social change Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. In bearing witness to that era, these militant newsmakers wrote in part to educate and to mobilize their anticipated readers. In this way, Davis's Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974), Shakur's Assata (1987), and Brown's A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (1992) can all be read as extensions of the writers' political activism during...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 ""I am We"": Black Women Activists Writing Autobiography; Chapter 2 Literary Antecedents in the Struggle for Freedom; Chapter 3 On Becoming: Activists' Reflections on Their Formative Experiences; Chapter 4 Autobiography as Political/Personal Intervention; Chapter 5 Gender and Power Dynamics in 1960's Black Nationalist Struggle; Chapter 6 Reading Intertextually: Black Power Narratives Then and Now; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Cornell University).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613455192

9781283455190

1283455196

9781604737356

1604737352

OCLC:

318813220

Publisher Number:

heb40097 hdl