Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers

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Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers

Joanne Veal Gabbin

Abstract

This book offers short chapters by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. With chapters by 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. The book includes an introduction that places these writers in the context of American literature in general and African American literature in particular. Each chapter ... More

Keywords: black women writers, American literature, African American literature, educational institutions, societal restrictions, racism, sexism, religious chauvinism, power of words, aesthetic development

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2009	Print ISBN-13: 9781604732740
Published to University Press of Mississippi: March 2014	DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781604732740.001.0001