New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 - Hardcover

Christian, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252031806 ISBN 13: 9780252031809

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2007

Synopsis

A passionate and celebrated pioneer in her own words

New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 collects a selection of essays and reviews from Barbara Christian, one of the founding voices in black feminist literary criticism. Published between the release of her second landmark book Black Feminist Criticism and her death, these writings include eloquent reviews, evaluations of black feminist criticism as a discipline, reflections on black feminism in the academy, and essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and others.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Christian (1943-2000) was an acclaimed professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Gloria Bowles was the founding coordinator of women's studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the editor of Theories of Women's Studies.

M. Giulia Fabi is an associate professor of American literature at the University of Ferrara, Italy, and the author of Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel.

Arlene R. Keizer is an associate professor of English, American civilization, and Africana studies at Brown University and author of Black Subjects: Theories of Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery.

Review:

"These essays bring together in a wonderfully synoptic fashion the themes and urgencies that defined Barbara Christian's work for the entirety of her thirty-year career."
--Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0252031806
• ISBN 13: 9780252031809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Bowles Gloria, Fabi M. Giulia, Keizer Arlene