Description

New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers is a collection of critical and pedagogical essays that shed new light on the creative depths of Black women writers. On the one hand, some Black women writers have been heavily anthologized, they have more often than not been restricted by critical metanarratives. Some of their works have been lionized while others remain neglected. On the other hand, some Black women writers have been ignored and understudied. This collection corrects the gaps in our critical thinking about Black women writers by introducing them to a new generation of undergraduate and graduate students, and by presenting pedagogical essays to our colleagues currently working in the field.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Eschewing Social Science and Defying Categorization: An Introduction to Contemporary Black Women Writers
LaToya Jefferson-James
Chapter 1: “You Can't Run from the Street”: Failed Escapes in Ann Petry's The Street (1947) and Shay Youngblood's Black Girl in Paris (2000)
Shahara'Tova V. Dente
Chapter 2: You Can't Shut Me Up: Using Gwendolyn Brooks to Help Me Be Seen and Heard
Carissa McCray
Chapter 3: Kathleen Collins: BAM Filmmaker and Fiction Writer
Cynthia Davis
Chapter 4: Closed in Silence and Clothed in Heteronormativity and the (Anti)Lesbian Embrace: The Woman's Plight in Gayl Jones' Eva's Man and “The Women”
Georgene Bess Montgomery
Chapter 5: Grange's Grapple and Brownfield's Battle: Redefining Manhood in Alice Walker's Third Life of Grange Copeland
Lana N. Lockhart
Chapter 6: Reconnections to Gendered Black Identities in Alice Walker's The World Will Follow Joy
Linda Mustafa
Chapter 7: Womanist Freedom Dreams: 'Stay on the Battlefield' by Sonia Sanc

Product details

Published 03 Mar 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 342
ISBN 9781793606709
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 237 x 163 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

LaToya Jefferson-James

Contributor

Cynthia Davis

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Ebony Gibson

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Carissa McCray

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Linda Jummai Mustafa

Linda Jummai Mustafa is lecturer at Ibrahim Badama…

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Anna Schmidt

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R. Nicole Smith

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Jasmine Wade

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