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Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers

Online ISBN:
9781604734713
Print ISBN:
9781604732740
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi
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Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers

Joanne Veal Gabbin (ed.)
Joanne Veal Gabbin
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Published online:
20 March 2014
Published in print:
11 August 2009
Online ISBN:
9781604734713
Print ISBN:
9781604732740
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi

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 includes a headnote summarizing the writer’s career and aesthetic development. In their pieces these women negotiate educational institutions and societal restrictions and find their voices despite racism, sexism, and religious chauvinism. They offer strong testimony to the power of words to heal, transform, and renew.

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