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Black women writers across cultures : an analysis of their contributions
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- Creator
- edited by Valentine Udoh James ... [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : International Scholars Publications, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 232 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781573094153, 1573094153, 9781573094160, 1573094161
- OCLC
- ocm44172890
- Ch. 1. The Keys to the Contribution of Black Women Writers: A Synopsis / Valentine Udoh James -- Ch. 2. Bessie Head's Perspectives on Women / Adeola James -- Ch. 3. Zulu Sofola: A Champion of Tradition in a Dislocated World / Adeola James -- Ch. 4. Feminist Consciousness and Young Adult Literature: Three Protagonists from the Novels of Helen Ovbiagele / James S. Etim -- Ch. 5. The African Response to American Feminism: A Reading of Flora Nwapa and Alice Walker / Francis Ibe Mogu -- Ch. 6. Women and Society in Selected Novels and Short Stories of Flora Nwapa / James S. Etim -- Ch. 7. Coramae Richey Mann on Women, Crime, and the Color of American Justice / Joan Mars -- Ch. 8. Nwapa and Gender, Culture, and Modernization: A Case Study of Efuru and Idu / Kofi Johnson and Babatunde Oyinade -- Ch. 9. Buchi Emecheta and the Politics of Gender / Joya Uraizee -- Ch. 10. Flora Nwapa's Final Legacy: Dramatic Elements in The Sychophants / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- Ch. 11. Grace Nichols' I is a Long Memoried Woman and Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust: Reversing the Middle Passage / Jacquelyn Benton
Subjects
- African literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- African literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
- Comparative literature -- African and American.
- Comparative literature -- American and African.
- African American women in literature.
- Women, Black, in literature.