Women have had a complex experience in African American culture. The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia approaches African American literature from a Wom
Focusing on Zola Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara, this book explores both the ways in which black women's fict
“Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” —Claudia Tate, from the introduct
Women have had a complex experience in African American culture. The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia approaches African American literature from a Wom