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'Not many scholars have the opportunity to trail blaze and publish a seminal work; Walters has a just that, and will make a major impact on scholarship in Classics, Black Studies, and Comparative Literature. Walters' work fosters discussion on how black women have used the classics as empowering, complicated, subtle; how black women signify off of one another; and generally how a handful of extremely important writers from a local or specific context found universal appeal. Walters moves from Phillis Wheatley to Rita Dove, while also discussing authors such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison. This is a wonderful array of significant authors.' - Patrice Rankine, Purdue University
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Book Title: African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition
Book Subtitle: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison
Authors: Tracey L. Walters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230608870
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Tracey L. Walters 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60022-5Published: 20 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36962-1Published: 23 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60887-0Published: 29 October 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 197
Topics: North American Literature, Gender Studies, Fiction, Anthropology, Twentieth-Century Literature