Changing our own words : essays on criticism, theory, and writing by Black women

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Title:

Changing our own words : essays on criticism, theory, and writing by Black women

Author:

Wall, Cheryl A.

Publication Information:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [1989]

Physical Description:

viii, 253 pages ; 21 cm

General Note:

Proceedings of a conference held at Rutgers University in Oct., 1987.

Language:

English

Contents:

Reading family matters / Deborah E. McDowell -- The permanent obliquity of an in(pha)llibly straight / Hortense J. Spillers -- Allegories of Black female desire / Claudia Tate -- But what do we think we're doing anyway / Barbara Christian -- What is your nation? / Abena P.A. Busia -- Living on the line / Gloria T. Hull -- I shop therefore I am / Susan Willis -- Speaking in tongues, dialogism, and the Black woman writer's literary tradition / Mae Gwendolyn Henderson -- Black feminist theory and the representation of the "other" / Valerie Smith.

Subject Term:

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. -- Congresses.

American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. -- Congresses.

African American women -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.

Women and literature -- United States -- Congresses.

Added Author:

Wall, Cheryl A.

ISBN:

9780813514628

9780813514635

Format :

Book