Bibliograph

Render me my song, African-American women writers from slavery to the present, Sandi Russell

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Render me my song, African-American women writers from slavery to the present, Sandi Russell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-224) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Render me my song

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

22493149

Responsibility statement

Sandi Russell

Sub title

African-American women writers from slavery to the present

Summary

The history of the black women writers in America, their struggle for recognition, and their contributions to American literature

Table Of Contents

Out of slavery (18th & 19th centuries): Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Harriet 'Linda Brent' Jacobs, Harriet E. Wilson, Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins -- Words to a white world (1900-20s): Alice Dunbar Nelson, Angelina Grimké, Anne Spencer, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen -- A jump at de Sun (1920s-40): Zora Neal Hurston -- Urban realities (1930s-60s): Ann Petry, Louise Meriwether, Dorothy West, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Margaret Walker -- Birth in a narrow room (1940s-present): Gwendolyn Brooks -- Black talk, black judgement (1960s-70s): Carolyn Rodgers, Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez -- A deeper reckoning (1970s-present): Toni Morrison -- The silenced speak (1970s-present): Maya Angelou, Alice Walker -- The unblinking eye (1960s-present): Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, June Jordan, Audre Lorde -- 'for colored girls ... ' (1970s-present): Lucille Clifton, Sherley Anne Williams, Alexis de Veaux, J.J. Phillips, Gayl Jones, Rita Dove, Toni Cade Bambara, Ntozake Shange

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