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Workings of the spirit : the poetics of Afro-American women's writing
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Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, the author weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against his own explanation of t...
Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, the author weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against his own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.
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- Houston A. Baker, Jr. ; with a phototext by Elizabeth Alexander and Patricia Redmond
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- English
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991
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- v, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- 0226035220, 9780226035222, 0226035239, 9780226035239
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- ocm21976195
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.
- The daughter's departure : theory, history, and late-nineteenth-century black women's writing -- Theoretical returns -- Workings of the spirit : conjure and the space of black women's creativity -- On knowing our place -- The changing instant -- Conclusion. Toward the iterability of ONE