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Books on: black women writers

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Broken Silences: Interviews with Black and White Women Writers

Book by Shirley M. Jordan; Rutgers University Press, 1993

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African American Women Authors--20th Century--Interviews, African American Women--Intellectual Life, African Americans In Literature, Authors, American--20th Century--Interviews, Race Relations In Literature, Whites In Literature, Women Authors, American--Interviews, Women--United States--Intellectual Life

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...speculate, I think several black writers, in responding to other...instance, notes that black women tend to represent qualities...these same lines, white writers also seemed to find...discuss what they felt black and white women could teach each other...
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Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered

Book by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

African American Women In Literature, African American Women--Intellectual Life--20th Century, African Americans In Literature, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Femininity In Literature, Feminism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), Slavery In Literature, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...thoughtful presentation of a black woman as mother and for its sensitive...aimed at defining the black woman in her own right, a challenge black women novelists writing in the...1966 , arguing instead that black writers were focusing their energies...
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Black American Women Fiction Writers

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1995

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African American Women In Literature, African Americans In Literature, American Fiction--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Court with a group of writers last year as part of...minority phalanx, the black essayist Al Young and...to distinguish among black faces. ... McMillan...even trickier line with black intellectuals. Despite...STEAD SELLERS Most black women writers are associated...
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Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women

Book by Stanlie M. James, Abena P. A. Busia; Routledge, 1993

Subjects:

African American Women, Feminist Theory, Pragmatism, Women, Black

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...and erasure of Black women writers, developed Black...attention to Black women writers subjectivity...enunciate a pronounced Black feminist politic...Cades The Black Woman (1970). However...appeared in The Black Woman, she could not...related to black women. Smith and Bethel...came out as a writer-not as a poet...
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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)becoming the Subject

Book by Kevin Everod Quashie; Rutgers University Press, 2004

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African American Aesthetics, African American Photographers, African American Women In Literature, African American Women--Intellectual Life, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Group Identity In Literature, Identity (Psychology) In Literature, Women And Literature--United States, Women Photographers, Women, Black, In Literature, Women, Black--Intellectual Life

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...staticized localities have on Black womens cultural idioms...crucial marker in U.S. Black literary studies; Renee...terms of Francophone writers in the Caribbean and...sub-Saharan African women. See Larrier, Francophone...widely accepted that Black women did not become...

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Journal Articles on: black women writers

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Cheryl A. Wall. Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition

Journal article by Irena Percinkova-Patton; African American Review, Vol. 42, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and...non-fiction by black women writers, Walls study...womens stories and women writers" (245). Framed...and allusions in black womens writing...Admittedly, the writer most engaged in...
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Walters, Tracey L. African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison

Journal article by Jennifer C. Rossi; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 41, 2009

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African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley...Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison...2); to "study Blacks in antiquity" (3...about how Black women writers reconfigure these myths...length on Black women writers use of the classics...eighteenth-century writer Phillis Wheatley to...
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Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition

Journal article by Geta Leseur-Brown; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 92, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage...Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage...American literature by women." In the prologue...how African American women subvert the conventions...and even the blues woman Bessie Smith. Some...legacy from earlier writers such as Zora Neale Hurston...author. Clifton as writer pays homage to white...
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Wall, Cheryl A. Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition

Journal article by Steven Tracy; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 33, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Book)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Cheryl A. Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition...Cheryl A. Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary...literary traditions. For Wall, black women writers represent the multidimensionality...
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Black Women Writers as Dynamic Agents of Change: Empowering Women from Africa to America

Journal article by Lena M. Ampadu; Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, 2007

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African American women authors--Political activity, African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Political activity, African American women writers--Works, Ba, Mariama--Political activity, Ba, Mariama--Works, Leadership--Portrayals, Maraire, J. Nozipo--Political activity, Maraire, J. Nozipo--Works, Walker, Alice (American writer)--Political activity, Walker, Alice (American writer)--Works

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...Organization of Women Writers of Africa, "Black women writers from around...contemporary African writer. In relation...event, this woman who had been...necessity for women, be they in...Activism from Black Writers? To reiterate...

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Magazine Articles on: black women writers

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What's Behind the Big Boom in Black Women Writers

Magazine article by Charles Whitaker; Ebony, Vol. 55, March 2000

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African American women authors--Works, African American women--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of a lot of women, Black and White." The expansion of the Black middle-class has...swelled the ranks of women with the disposable...book-buying. Blacks are currently spending...sales (and support Black writers) is the network of...
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Black Women Writers Are Making Herstory

Magazine article; Ebony, Vol. 60, March 2005

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Afterburn (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists (Book)--Book reviews, Speak So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale (Book)--Book reviews, Venus & Serena: Serving from the Hip: 10 Rules for Living, Loving and Winning (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Black Women Writers Are Making Herstory. FROM SUN TO SUN...barriers and is claimed by many prominent Black woman authors as their literary mother. Hurston...heralding the overcoming spirit of Black women artists is CREATING THEIR OWN IMAGE...
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Women of Mystery (Female Canadian Mystery Writers)

Magazine article by Lyn Cockburn; Herizons, Vol. 8, Summer 1994

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African Americans, Black literature, Canadian literature, Crime, Literature, Murders & murder attempts, Mysteries, Violent crime, Women, Writers

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...right. Women mystery writers do develop their characters...Kilbourn is an ordinary woman who worries about her...authors who write about women as they are. Their...books are attractive women who often dare to be...there are no demsels who woman piteously, attractively...rescued. Indeed, many women readers can now pick...the Canadian woman writer is no newcomer on the...
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New Directions in Black Spirituality: Black Writers Attract Huge Following of Women and Men Searching for Healing

Magazine article by Kelly Starling; Ebony, Vol. 53, October 1998

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African American authors--Authorship, African Americans--Religion, Religious literature--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...directions in black spirituality: black writers attract huge following of women and men searching...Just as every woman has had a Tea...writing." The woman thought so much...predominantly by women in the last decade...rows of seated women nodding their...cultures," says the woman whose pecan face...
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The Death of a Network: Will There Be Work for Black Actors, Writers, and Producers?

Magazine article by Alexis Mccombs; Black Enterprise, Vol. 36, May 2006

Subjects:

African Americans--Forecasts and trends, Authors, Black--Laws, regulations and rules, Black writers--Laws, regulations and rules

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...Will There Be Work for Black Actors, Writers, and Producers? by...McCombs For many of the black writers who tell the...major role in helping black writers get their foot...efforts to hire unemployed blacks with the use of diversity...particularly young women. The programming lineup...

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Newspaper Articles on: black women writers

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It's about Finding a Positive Image; Today Sees That Launch of Black History Month in Birmingham. Here Writer Siobhan Harper-Nunes Explains What It Means to Her

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 29, 2006

Subjects:

Black History Month

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Today Sees That Launch of Black History Month in Birmingham. Here Writer Siobhan Harper-Nunes...movement, the work of women in the abolition movement...see positive images of black people if they are to...Guyana and she spurned the women that said her children...feel proud. As a young woman I remember promising...
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Baby Be Mine; Surveys Show That More and More Career Women Are Putting off Having Children. Here, One Writer Who Has Left It Too Late to Have Her Own Child Tells of Her First Steps on the Long Road to Adoption

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 21, 2006

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Adoption, Working women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...More and More Career Women Are Putting off Having Children. Here, One Writer Who Has Left It Too Late...make me feel more of a woman, or to ensure I would...started to talk to other women who had gone through...met Lucy McCarraher, a writer (her first novel, Blood...brown and with a shiny black bob. BECAUSE of a childhood...
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Passion Unites Artistic Women; AN Artistic Pick 'N' Mix Is Set to Tickle Your Tastebuds. TAMZIN LEWIS Chews It over with Actor and Writer Sue Buchan

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 15, 2011

Subjects:

Actors, Actresses, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Passion Unites Artistic Women; AN Artistic Pick N Mix...It over with Actor and Writer Sue Buchan. AS any expert...art. A group of five women from across the region...It is a film about black and minority ethnic womens...life experiences of women I have worked with...
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THE EMPRESS of Sexcess; Apart from Her Legendary Spending Habits, Little Is Known about Barbara Amiel, Wife of Disgraced Telegraph Tycoon Conrad Black. Now, Someone Who Really Knew Her Has Broken His Silence to Tell the Truth about a Woman of Ruthless Ambition Who Used Sex to Get Exactly What She Wanted . .

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 13, 2004

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Black, Conrad

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Telegraph Tycoon Conrad Black. Now, Someone...to subsidise the Blacks lifestyle. But...her as a feature writer and columnist for...was the sort of woman who kept spilling...magazines most talented writers, reminisced...person. Fellow writers used to drop into...she did. Another writer, Judith Timson...sent the magazines writers, celebrating a...beautiful younger women, he unabashedly...
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Black Writers through the Mail

Newspaper article by Jonetta Rose Barras; The Washington Times, November 21, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Black writers through the mail by...Barras "I am a black woman/ tall as a cypress...other African-American writers. The director of Howard...who knows the dynamic writer-professor knows ideas...which was choosing the writers. As director of his...of African-American women writers," and calls...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: black women writers

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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the lives of minorities and women. Beginning with Lorraine Hansberry...explored black American life; writers including Ed Bullins (e.g...century. Feminist and other women-centered themes dramatized...provocative female-themed one-women shows such as Eve Enslers The...
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Canadian Literature, English

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...The Rev. C. W. Gordon (Ralph Connor) produced Black Rock (1898), a series of novels on pioneer life...but have remained predominantly regional, and many writers have been women. Among the most prominent authors have been Lucy...
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Abolitionists

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...members, including many women. Although abolitionists...followers also argued that women be allowed to participate...candidate in 1840 and 1844. Writers such as John Greenleaf...Crusade for Freedom: Women in the Antislavery Movement...1969); B. Quarles, Black Abolitionists (1969...
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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the author of the "black legend" of Spain...early 19th cent. Prose writers and poets, imbued with...but also a prolific writer and educator. His Life...peoples. Modernismo The writers of Spanish America in...which influenced writers throughout Spanish America...and movements. Three women poets, Alfonsina Storni...
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Sembene, Ousmane

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Docker noir (1956; tr. The Black Docker, 1981). He became...1966 he directed La Noire de black girl, which uses a combination...profound concern for African women. See F. Pfaff, The Cinema...Dialogues with Critics and Writers (1994); S. Petty, ed...

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