In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. Building on and departing from the Black Arts Movement, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism—practiced by their characters as ‘women’s work’—that defines a distinct contemporary literary movement, demanding attention to the continued relevance of nation in post–Black Arts writing. Identifying five forms of women’s work as organizing, dancing, mapping, cooking, and inscribing, Thorsson shows how these writers reclaimed and revised cultural nationalism to hail African America.
Courtney Thorsson
Women’s Work
Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels
Women’s Work
Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels
语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 240 ● ISBN 9780813934495 ● 文件大小 0.8 MB ● 出版者 University of Virginia Press ● 市 Charlottesville ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2013 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 3066705 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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