MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aPS153.N5$bB558 1984
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245 00 $aBlack women writers (1950-1980) :$ba critical evaluation /$cedited by Mari Evans.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aGarden City, N.Y. :$bAnchor Press/Doubleday,$c1984.
300 $axxviii, 543 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMAYA ANGELOU -- Shades and slashes of light / Maya Angelou -- Maya Angelou and the autobiographical statement / Selwyn R. Cudjoe -- Reconstruction of the composite self: new images of Black women in Maya Angelou's continuing autobiography / Sondra O'Neale -- TONI CADE BAMBARA -- Salvation is the issue / Toni Cade Bambara -- From baptism to resurrection: Toni Cade Bambara and the incongruity of language / Ruth Elizabeth Burks -- Music as theme: the jazz mode in the works of Toni Cade Bambara / Eleanor W. Traylor -- GWENDOLYN BROOKS -- The field of the fever, the time of the tall-walkers / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Gwendolyn Brooks: poet of the whirlwind / Addison Gayle -- Gwendolyn Brooks' poetic realism: a developmental survey / George Kent -- ALICE CHILDRESS -- A candle in a Gale wind / Alice Childress -- Alice Childress's dramatic structure / Samuel A. Hay -- The literary genius of Alice Childress / John O. Killens -- LUCILLE CLIFTON -- A simple language / Lucille Clifton -- Tell the good news: a view of the works of Lucille Clifton / Audrey T. McCluskey -- Lucille Clifton: warm water, greased legs, and dangerous poetry / Haki Madhubuti -- MARI EVANS -- My father's passage / Mari Evans -- The art of Mari Evans / David Dorsey -- Affirmation in the works of Mari Evans / Solomon Edwards -- NIKKI GIOVANNI -- An answer to some questions on how I write: in three parts / Nikki Giovanni -- Nikki Giovanni: taking a chance on feeling / Paula Giddings -- Sweet soft essence of possibility: the poetry of Nikki Giovanni / William J. Harris -- GAYL JONES -- About my work / Gayl Jones -- Singing a deep song: language as evidence in the novels of Gayl Jones / Melvin Dixon -- Escape from trublem: the fiction of Gayl Jones / Jerry W. Ward -- AUDRE LORDE -- My words will be there / Audre Lorde -- In the name of the father: the poetry of Audre Lorde / Jerome Brooks -- The unicorn is black: Audre Lorde in retrospect / Joan Martin -- PAULE MARSHALL -- The closing of the circle: movement from division to wholeness in Paule Marshall's fiction / Eugenia Collier -- And called every generation blessed: theme, setting, and ritual in the works of Paule Marshall / John McCluskey, Jr. -- TONI MORRISON -- Rootedness: the ancestor as foundation / Toni Morrison -- The quest for self: triumph and failure in the works of Toni Morrison / Dorothy H. Lee -- Theme, characterization, and style in the works of Toni Morrison / Darwin T. Turner -- CAROLYN RODGERS -- An amen area / Carolyn Rodgers -- Imagery in the women poems: the art of Carolyn Rodgers / Angelene Jamison -- Running wild in her soul: the poetry of Carolyn Rodgers / Bettye J. Parker-Smith -- SONIA SANCHEZ -- Ruminations/Reflections / Sonia Sanchez -- Sonia Sanchez: the bringer of memories / Haki Madhubuti -- The poetry of Sonia Sanchez / David Williams -- ALICE WALKER -- Writing 'The Color Purple' / Alice Walker -- Alice Walker: the Black woman artist as wayward / Barbara Christian -- Alice Walker's women: in search of some peace of mind / Bettye J. Parker-Smith -- MARGARET WALKER -- Fields watered with blood: myth and ritual in the poetry of Margaret Walker / Eugenia Collier -- Music as theme: the blues mode in the works of Margaret Walker / Eleanor Traylor.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aAfrican American women in literature.
700 1 $aEvans, Mari,$d1923-
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