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The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.

American literature --- African American women --- African American women in literature. --- Women and literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Intellectual life. --- History.

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After decades of relegation to the margins of American literary history, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has recently been rediscovered by American literary and cultural scholars who have begun to explore the novel's thematic, ideological, and aesthetic complexity. In the introduction to this volume Michael Awkward provides an overview of the critical reception of Hurston's novel, from the largely dismissive reviews accompanying the novel's publication in 1937, to factors which helped revive interest in Hurston in the 1960s, to its recent establishment as a central American novel. The other essays in the volume discuss Hurston's sophisticated use of black folklore, the autobiographical resonances in the novel, Hurston's definition of the relationship between black artists and the Afro-American masses, and the usefulness of feminist modes of inquiry. This collection offers fresh insight for approaching Hurston's compelling exploration of a black woman's extended search for self and community.

American literature --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- African American women in literature --- Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen in de literatuur --- Femmes afro-américaines dans la littérature --- Noires américaines dans la littérature --- Hurston, Zora Neale. --- Afro-American women in literature --- African American women in literature. --- Noires américaines dans la littérature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Naylor, Gloria --- Criticism and interpretation --- African American women in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Women and literature --- United States --- History --- 20th century --- African American women in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American women in literature --- Criticism and interpretation.