Changing our own words : essays on criticism, theory, and writing by Black women / Cheryl A. Wall, editor.

Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©1989.
Descriptionviii, 253 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
American literature--African American authors. --History and criticism. --Theory, etc. --Congresses.
American literature--Women authors. --History and criticism. --Theory, etc. --Congresses.
African American women--Intellectual life. --Congresses.
Women and literature--United States. --Congresses.

Contents Speaking in tongues / Mae Gwendolyn Henderson -- Black feminist theory and the representation of the "other" / Valerie Smith -- But what do we think we're doing anyway / Barbara Christian -- Reading family matters / Deborah E. McDowell -- Allegories of Black female desire, or, Rereading nineteenth-century sentimental narratives of Black female authority / Claudia Tate -- The permanent obliquity of an in(pha)llibly straight / Hortense J. Spillers -- Living on the line / Gloria T. Hull -- I shop therefore I am / Susan Willis -- What is your nation? / Abena P. A. Busia.
General noteProceedings of a conference held at Rutgers University in Oct., 1987.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographies and index.
LCCN 89006126
ISBN0813514622
ISBN0813514630 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.B53 C44 1989 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner General Stacks PS153.B53 C44 1989 ✔ Available Place Hold