Black American Women's Writing: A Quilt of Many ColoursHarvester Wheatsheaf, 1994 - 266 pages This work discusses a range of novels, short stories and essays by black American women writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present time. It begins with a survey of 19th-century black women's slave narratives, early sentimental novels and autobiographies and then focuses on six writers: Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Maya Angelou. The text shows how these writers have developed the preoccupations, themes and narrative strategies of their literary ancestors. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Pioneering voices | 13 |
Harlem and the First Black Renaissance | 30 |
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