Black Women’s Writing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction. Black and White: Voices, Writers and Readers

   • Gina Wisker

   Pages 1-18

3. ‘Writing the Body’: Reading Joan Riley, Grace Nichols and Ntozake Shange

   • Gabriele Griffin

   Pages 19-42

4. Black Women Writing and Reading

   • Jackie Roy

   Pages 43-54

5. ‘Long Memoried Women’: Caribbean Women Poets

   • Bruce Woodcock

   Pages 55-77

6. ‘Disremembered and Unaccounted For’: Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar

   • Gina Wisker

   Pages 78-95

7. Art, Action and the Ancestors: Alice Walker’s Meridian in its Context

   • Christine Hall

   Pages 96-110

8. ‘Not My People’: Toni Morrison and Identity

   • Elaine Jordan

   Pages 111-126

9. Autobiography: The Art of Self-Definition

   • Eva Lennox Birch

   Pages 127-145

10. Reading from a Distance: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy

    • Sara Chetin

    Pages 146-159

11. Reconstructing the Past, Shaping the Future: Bessie Head and the Question of Feminism in a New South Africa

    • Dorothy Driver

    Pages 160-187

12. Back Matter

    Pages 188-189

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This book 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. 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.

• Africa
• African
• America
• biography
• Caribbean
• corpus
• drama
• dramatist
• essay
• identity
• knowledge
• temple
• women
• writing

• Anglia Polytechnic, Cambridge, UK

  Gina Wisker

Gina has worked in educational development for over 25 years, and in 2005 was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for her work in teaching and learning. She is the author of The Undergraduate Research Handbook, The Postgraduate Research Handbook and The Good Supervisor. 

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