Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers
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| Management number | 231913394 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $10.34 | Model Number | 231913394 | ||
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Shaping Memories offers short essays by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. With contributions from such figures as novelist Paule Marshall, folklorist Daryl Cumber Dance, poets Mari Evans and Camille Dungy, essayist Ethel Morgan Smith, and scholar Maryemma Graham, the anthology provides a thorough overview of the formal concerns and thematic issues facing contemporary black women writers.Editor Joanne Veal Gabbin offers an introduction that places these writers in the context of American literature in general and African American literature in particular. Each essay includes a headnote summarizing the writer's career and aesthetic development. In their pieces these women negotiate educational institutions and societal restrictions and find their voices despite racism, sexism, and religious chauvinism. They offer strong testimony to the power of words to heal, transform, and renew. Read more
| ASIN | B0039MHACM |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN10 | 9781604734713 |
| ISBN13 | 978-1604734713 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 1.9 MB |
| Page Flip | Not Enabled |
| Publisher | University Press of Mississippi |
| Word Wise | Not Enabled |
| Print length | 240 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Publication date | August 11, 2009 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Not Enabled |
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