[PDF] New Criticism And Pedagogical Directions For Contemporary Black Women Writers eBook

Author : LaToya Jefferson-James
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793606714

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New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers is a collection of critical and pedagogical essays that shed new light on the creative depths of Black women writers. On the one hand, some Black women writers have been heavily anthologized, they have more often than not been restricted by critical metanarratives. Some of their works have been lionized while others remain neglected. On the other hand, some Black women writers have been ignored and understudied. This collection corrects the gaps in our critical thinking about Black women writers by introducing them to a new generation of undergraduate and graduate students, and by presenting pedagogical essays to our colleagues currently working in the field.

Author : LaToya Jefferson-James
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793606684

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Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several literary genres and geographies, and introduces Black women writers of the Caribbean to some American audiences. It sheds light on lesser-discussed Black women playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance and re-evaluates the turn-of-the century concept, Noble Womanhood in light of the Cult of Domesticity.

Author : Lisa Yaszek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000826287

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind, critically assessing the relations of gender and genre in science fiction (SF) especially—but not exclusively—as explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world. This global volume builds upon the traditions of interdisciplinary inquiry by connecting established topics in gender studies and science fiction studies with emergent ideas from researchers in different media. Taken together, they challenge conventional generic boundaries; provide new ways of approaching familiar texts; recover lost artists and introduce new ones; connect the revival of old, hate-based politics with the increasing visibility of imagined futures for all; and show how SF stories about new kinds of gender relations inspire new models of artistic, technoscientific, and political practice. Their chapters are grouped into five conversations—about the history of gender and genre, theoretical frameworks, subjectivities, medias and transmedialities, and transtemporalities—that are central to discussions of gender and SF in the current moment. A range of both emerging and established names in media, literature, and cultural studies engage with a huge diversity of topics including eco-criticism, animal studies, cyborg and posthumanist theory, masculinity, critical race studies, Indigenous futurisms, Black girlhood, and gaming. This is an essential resource for students and scholars studying gender, sexuality, and/or science fiction.

Author : Claudia Tate
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1642598550

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“Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” —Claudia Tate, from the introduction Long out-of-print, Black Women Writers At Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century. Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks. Alexis Deveaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Tillie Olson, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margret Walker, and Shirley Anne Williams, the book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after. Responding to questions about why and for whom they write, and how they perceive their responsibility to their work, to others, and to society, the featured playwrights, poets, novelists, and essayists provide a window into the connections between their lives and their art. Finally available for a new generation, this classic work has an urgent message for readers and writers today.

Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1993-01
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780312068646

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"Black Women's Writing contains a lively and wide-ranging collection of critical essays on Black women's writing from Afro-American, African, South African, British and Caribbean novelists, poets, short-story writers and a dramatist. For the reader, student and teacher it provides a useful introduction to much of the range of writing by Black women." "The focus is on writing, producing, reading and teaching the texts as creative, imaginative and culturally engaged works which give a voice to a variety of Black women's experiences." "The contributors are Black and White, female and male, academics and readers who chart their engagement with and enjoyment of the texts of some of the key figures in Black women's writing across several continents. This is an exciting and accessible book which will stimulate the reader's interest in what is arguably some of the best contemporary writing."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Barbara Christian
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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A collection of critical essays on African-American women writers.

Author : Stephanie Brown
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1527563723

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Engaging Tradition, Making It New offers a rich collection of fresh scholarly and pedagogical approaches to new African American literature. Organized around the theme of transgression, the collection focuses on those writers who challenge the reading habits and expectations of students and instructors, whether by engaging themes and literary forms not usually associated with African American literature or by departing from traditional modes of approaching historical, social, or legal struggles. Each chapter offers a specific reading of a particular novel, memoir, or poetry collection, sometimes in concert with a second, related text, and suggests both a useful critical context and one or more pedagogical approaches. Engaging Tradition, Making It New points the way toward exciting new methods of teaching and researching authors in this dynamic field.

Author : Calvin C. Hernton
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 1990-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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A bold exploration of the controversial role that black women writers have played in the making of African-American literature by the bestselling author of Sex and Racism in America. "Confirms that black women authors are celebrating a literary Fourth of July in America".--Plain Dealer. (Anchor)

Author : Jean Wyatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429581351

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Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how, in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain, formal narrative techniques express new understandings of race or stimulate ethical thinking about race in a reader. Taken together, the essays also demonstrate that black women writers from both sides of the Atlantic borrow formal structures and literary techniques from one another to describe the workings of structural racism in the daily lives of black subjects and to provoke readers to think anew about race. Narratology has only recently begun to use race as a category of narrative theory. This collection seeks both to show the ethical effects of narrative form on individual readers and to foster reconceptualizations of narrative theory that account for the workings of race within literature and culture.

Author : Carole Boyce Davies
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415100861

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A superb study of black women's writing, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels. A major contribution to a range of related fields including feminist, cultural and postcolonial studies.