Half in Shadow The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay / Shanna Greene Benjamin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene Benjamin, Shanna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--United States--History.

Women's studies.

African American women scholars--Biography.

African American women scholars.

African American women college teachers--Biography.

African American women college teachers.

McKay, Nellie Y.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource) : 13 halftones

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Nellie Y. McKay (1930-2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making Norton Anthology of African American Literature with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay's life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing, new details about McKay's life emerged, surprising everyone who knew her. Why did McKay choose to hide so many details of her past? Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Prologue

Introduction

Scene I | The Site of Memory

Chapter One. Strategies, Not Truths

Scene II | She May Very Well Have Invented Herself

Chapter Two. Some Very Vital Missing Thing

Scene III | Rootedness

Chapter Three. When and Where I Enter

Scene IV | Home

Chapter Four. Crepuscule with Nellie

Photographs

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award: Nonfiction, 2022.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908596-9-3

979-88-908597-0-9

1-4696-6189-6

1-4696-6188-8

OCLC:

1242875653