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One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves "The Sisterhood," the group--which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and others--would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation.The Sisterhood tells the story of how this remarkable community transformed American writing and cultural institutions. Drawing on original interviews with Sisterhood members as well as correspondence, meeting minutes, and readings of their works, Courtney Thorsson explores the group's everyday collaboration and profound legacy. The Sisterhood advocated for Black women writers at trade publishers and magazines such as Random House, Ms., and Essence, and eventually in academic departments as well--often in the face of sexist, racist, and homophobic backlash. Thorsson traces the personal, professional, and political ties that brought the group together as well as the reasons for its dissolution. She considers the popular and critical success of Sisterhood members in the 1980s, the uneasy absorption of Black feminism into the academy, and how younger writers built on the foundations the group laid. Highlighting the organizing, networking, and community building that nurtured Black women's writing, this book demonstrates that The Sisterhood offers an enduring model for Black feminist collaboration.
American literature --- Feminism in literature --- Women authors, Black --- History and criticism
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Women authors, Black --- Poets, German --- Women, Black --- Racism --- Black people --- Ayim, May, --- Political and social views. --- Germany --- Race relations.
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"Imagine being born into a world where everything about you--the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth--designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people. Scholastique Mukasonga's Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda--the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bittersweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance, and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window onto an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror"
Atrocities. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Ethnic relations. --- Genocide --- Genocide. --- Hutu (African people) --- Hutu (African people) --- Tutsi (African people) --- Tutsi (African people) --- Women authors, Black --- Women authors, Black. --- Historical. --- Personal Memoirs. --- Women. --- History --- Politics and government --- Politics and government. --- Crimes against --- History --- Crimes against. --- Mukasonga, Scholastique. --- Mukasonga, Scholastique. --- Civil War (Rwanda : 1994). --- 1900-2099. --- Rwanda --- Rwanda --- Rwanda --- Rwanda. --- Ethnic relations --- History --- History --- Atrocities
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Making History Happen: Caribbean Poetry in America examines Lorna Goodison's Turn Thanks (1999), McCallum's The Water Between Us (1999), and Claudia Rankine's Plot (2001) and Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004). Engaging familiar themes and issues of time, language, and identity, the readings focus on "Signifying" moments in the works of the poets under discussion. Reflecting on some of the ways that transnational women poets of the black diaspora are using tropes of mobility to create a renewed sense of identity and a sense of belonging to a communal network, the readings also demonstrate that the
American literature --- American poetry --- Jamaican poetry --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Jamaican literature --- Caribbean American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors, Black --- Women authors --- Goodison, Lorna. --- McCallum, Shara, --- Rankine, Claudia,
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This book develops a theory of multimodality – the participation of a text in more than one mode – centred on the poetry/poetics of Lillian Allen, Claire Harris, Dionne Brand, and Marlene Nourbese Philip. How do these poets represent oral Caribbean English Creoles (CECs) in writing and negotiate the relationship between the high literary in Canadian letters and the social and historical meanings of CECs? How do the latter relate to the idea of “female and black”? Through fluid use of code- and mode-switching, the movement of Brand and Philip between creole and standard English, and written orality and standard writing forms part of their meanings. Allen’s eye-spellings precisely indicate stereotypical creole sounds, yet use the phonological system of standard English. On stage, Allen projects a black female body in the world and as a speaking subject. She thereby shows that the implication of the written in the literary excludes her body’s language (as performance); and she embodies her poetry to realize a ‘language’ alternative to the colonizing literary. Harris’s creole writing helps her project a fragmented personality, a range of dialects enabling quite different personae to emerge within one body. Thus Harris, Brand, Philip, and Allen both project the identity “female and black” and explore this social position in relation to others. Considering textual multimodality opens up a wide range of material connections. Although written, this poetry is also oral; if oral, then also embodied; if embodied, then also participating in discourses of race, gender, sexuality, and a host of other systems of social organization and individual identity. Finally, the semiotic body as a mode (i.e. as a resource for making meaning) allows written meanings to be made that cannot otherwise be expressed in writing. In every case, Allen, Philip, Harris, and Brand escape the constraints of dominant media, refiguring language via dialect and mode to represent a black feminist sensibility.
Women authors, Black --- Canadian literature --- Women authors, Black. --- Black women authors --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Black authors --- Black authors. --- Harris, Claire, --- Philip, Marlene Nourbese, --- Allen, Lillian, --- Brand, Dionne, --- Nourbese Philip, Marlene, --- Philip, M. Nourbese --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canad --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanak --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canad --- Yn Chanadey --- Allen, Lillian Diana, --- Dominio del Canadá --- Kaineḍā --- Kanakā --- Republica de Canadá
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The Nobel Prize author discusses her life & such acclaimed works as Sula, Tar Baby, & Beloved. Annotation. A collection of 24 interviews with the author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, arranged chronologically from 1974 to 1992. The interviews reveal an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-American experience and is fueled by cultural and societal concerns. Taken as a whole, the interviews illuminate the evolution of Morrison's purpose as a writer--to present African-American life not as sociology but in the full range of its depth, magic, and humanity.
African American novelists --- Fiction --- Novelists, American --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Afro-American novelists --- Novelists, African American --- Morrison, Toni --- Interviews --- African American women novelists --- 20th century --- African American novelists. --- African American women novelists. --- African American women authors. --- Women authors, Black. --- Romancières noires américaines --- Authorship. --- Morrison, Toni. --- Wofford, Chloe Anthony --- Morrisonová, Toni --- מוריסון, טוני --- Romancières noires américaines
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"Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory"--
Horror in literature. --- African American women authors. --- Women authors, Black --- Feminist theory. --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Black women authors --- Afro-American women authors --- Women authors, African American --- Women authors, American --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- England. --- african literature. --- african. --- diaspora. --- haiti. --- horror fiction. --- horror. --- jamaica. --- literature. --- shakespeare. --- tempest. --- trinidad. --- women.
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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the “madwoman” as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors to this volume examine how black women authors use madness, trauma, mental illness, and psychopathology as a refraction of cultural contradictions, psychosocial fissures, and political tensions of the larger social systems in which their diverse literary works are set through a cultural studies approach. The volume is constructed in three sections: Revisiting the Archive, Reinscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation, The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony, and Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm. The novels under review re-envision the initial trauma of slavery and imperialism, both acknowledging the impact of these events on diasporic populations and expanding the discourse beyond that framework. Through madness and healing as sites of psychic return, these novels become contemporary parables of cultural resistance.
Culture --- United States --- African Americans. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature. --- Sociology. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Gender expression. --- Gender identity. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- African American Culture. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Gender Studies. --- American Culture. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Expression, Gender --- Sex role --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Cultural studies --- Study and teaching. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Psychological aspects --- Mental illness in literature. --- Women authors, Black. --- African diaspora. --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Black women authors --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- Migrations --- Literature . --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- United States—Study and teaching. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Black people
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