category: african american women authors

Toni Morrison: Forty Years in the Clearing

... Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (New York: Random House-Vintage, 1992), 3. Donald Klein and Hisham M. Amin. “Racial Legacies,” African American Review 28, no. 4 (1994): 659. Morrison, Playing in the Dark, 90 ...

Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color

... story with the author's ap- propriation of Miss Sasagawara's own life experience also proves a con- sistent factor in the construction of identity in People Who Led to My Plays and in Storyteller . Leslie Marmon Silko shares the ...

Gwendolyn Brooks

... Raymond Malewitz Raymond Malewitz outlines the historical and cultural context of Brooks's engagement with the Black Arts movement . Ironically , Brooks , whose poetry carved a place for black , female voices to be heard in modernist ...

Race, Gender and Desire: Narrative Strategies and the Production of Ideology in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker

... Raymond's Run " ; and she confronts the police officers who interrupt the basketball game that she and Manny are playing . in her rejection of behaviors specifically assigned by the culture to young to young girls , she directly ...

Shaker, why Don't You Sing?

Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities.

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