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Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic (Paperback)

A clear and uncluttered writer Dubey helps us understand these ideological and literary complexities. --Virginia Quarterly Review . . . an important contribution to the study of African-American women s fiction. Not only does it provide a compelling... more

Pre-Owned Comedy and the Woman Writer : Woolf Spark and Feminism 9780803228597 Used

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Pre-Owned Wild Women in the Whirlwind : Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance (Paperback) 9780813514420

Wild Women in the Whirlwind is the first book to explore the literary and cultural traditions of these writers and to locate their work within the history of black women - a history rich but neglected which the contributors illuminate with moving... more

Black Women Writers of Louisiana: Telling Their Stories (Hardcover)

Louisiana has been home by birth or adoption to numerous literary greats. But among that talent there s an under-celebrated cohort: Black women. Due to lack of education and opportunity their record is fairly brief but over the past century they... more

midnight & indigo - Celebrating Black women writers (Issue 8) (Paperback)

midnight & indigo is a literary journal dedicated to short stories and narrative essays by Black women writers. Featuring 10 new short stories and essays by emerging and established Black women writers from the U.S. Caribbean and Africa our eighth... more

Pre-Owned Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of One Hundred Black Women Writers 1900-1945 (Paperback) by Lorraine Elena Roses Lorraine E Roses Ruth Elizabeth Randolph

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Pre-Owned Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Paperback 9780813551784) by Professor Catherine Keyser

9780813551784. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 242. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 242 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. American Literatures Initiative. Smart women sophisticated ladies savvy... more

Pre-Owned Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers (Hardcover 9780812240863) by Shannon Miller

9780812240863. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 288. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. The narrative of the Garden of Eden infused seventeenth-century... more

Pre-Owned Seventeen Syllables : Hisaye Yamamoto (Paperback 9780813520537) by King-Kok Cheung

9780813520537. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 240. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Women Writers: Texts and Contexts. Hisaye Yamamoto s often reprinted tale of... more

Reading Trauma and Memory Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature (Hardcover)

This book expands on a literary tradition where Black writers articulate the impact of slavery s legacy over time. Along with Black Feminist studies this book demonstrates how trauma studies can transcend Eurocentric roots by encompassing traumatic... more

Pre-Owned Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation (Paperback) 0385171250 9780385171250

Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation by Evans Mari more

In Search of Our Mothers Gardens: Womanist Prose (Paperback)

In this groundbreaking classic essay collection Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman writer mother and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political. This edition includes a new Letter to the Reader by Alice Walker. Originally... more

NWSA / UIP First Book Prize: Women s Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa : Gender Race and Performance Space (Paperback)

Theater is an essential theoretical and practical site for forging Black radical thought Africana feminisms and womanism. Nicosia M. Shakes draws on ethnographic research in Jamaica and South Africa to analyze the vital relationship between activism... more

Wit and Wisdom of Modern Women Writers 1902

{Size: 13.34 x 21.59 cms} Lang: - English Pages 232 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2020 with the help of original edition published long back [1902]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated... more

Contributions in Women s Studies Women Writers in Black Africa Book 21 (Hardcover)

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Contributions in Women s Studies Against the Horizon: Feminism and Postwar Austrian Women Writers Book 92 (Hardcover)

This is the only English-language book to deal in depth with Austrian women writers of the postwar and contemporary period. It is a comparative study of the works of Marlen Haushofer Ingeborg Bachmann Barbara Frischmuth Elfriede Jelinek and Brigitte... more

Routledge Library Editions: Women Feminism and Literature: Victorian Women s Fiction : Marriage Freedom and the Individual (Hardcover)

Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have in their creative work challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex this book s critical interest in women s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers... more

Pre-Owned Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative : Femininity Unfettered 9780313308383

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Francophone Women Writers : Feminisms Postcolonialisms Cross-Cultures (Paperback)

This anthology seeks to introduce women writers in the global Francophone world by investigating the place of feminist postcolonial and cross-cultural theories in interpreting women francophone literature. The book also allows the reader to examine... more

EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS: A Genealogy of the Gentleman : Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)

A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through narrative constructions of the gentleman in courtship novels. This codification of the gentleman... more

EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS: Objects of Liberty : British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs (Hardcover)

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in six British women’s travel accounts of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. Using a methodology informed by literary gender and material culture studies it argues that women writers... more

Pre-Owned Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin de Siecle (Paperback 9780813520186) by Elaine Showalter

9780813520186. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 352. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. At the turn of the century short stories by--and often about-- New Women... more

Pre-Owned Reconstructing Womanhood : The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist 9780195060713

A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the... more

Irish Studies: The Banshees (Hardcover)

Although much has been written about American feminism and its influence on culture and society very little has been recorded about the key role played by Irish American women writers in exposing women s issues protecting their rights and... more

Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists (Paperback)

The 1840s 50s and 60s: three decades during which the British feminist movement saw some of its most intense activity of the nineteenth-century and readers find some of the most monstrous troubling representations of women by male writers in all of... more

Pre-Owned Look! It s a Woman Writer!: Irish Literary Feminisms 1970-2020 Paperback

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African-American Literature and Culture: After the Pain: Critical Essays on Gayl Jones (Paperback)

As a poet playwright novelist short-story writer and critic Gayl Jones has always resisted labels in her quest to find a liberating voice for black women and herself. With a poet s lyricism and a musician s ear for rhythm she continually seeks new... more

Pre-Owned In Search of Our Mothers Gardens: Womanist Prose (Paperback 9780156445443) by Alice Walker

9780156445443. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 420. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 420 p. In her first collection of nonfiction Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman writer mother feminist. Throughout... more

The Black Woman : An Anthology (Paperback)

A collection of early emerging works from some of the most celebrated African American female writers who remain strong when the weight of a world filled with racism and gender discrimination wants to drag them down. When it was first published in... more

Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (Paperback)

A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the... more

Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperback) Color Sex and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

This volume is a biographical/critical study of three poets--Angelina Weld Grimke Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Georgia Douglas Johnson. more

Pre-Owned British Women Mystery Writers: Authors of Detective Fiction with Female Sleuths (Paperback 9780786412426) by Mary Hadley

9780786412426. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 208. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 208 p. Contains: Halftones black & white. Many aspects of British detective fiction are intriguingly different from the... more

Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination (Paperback)

Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers filmmakers and musicians including Toni Morrison Octavia Butler Julie Dash and Janelle... more

Black American Women s Writings (Paperback)

This work discusses a range of novels short stories and essays by black American women writers from the Harlem Renaissance to the present time. It begins with a survey of 19th-century black women s slave narratives early sentimental novels and... more

Cemetery of the Murdered Daughters : Feminism History and Ingeborg Bachmann (Paperback)

Although Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is widely regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century authors writing in German her novels and stories have sometimes been viewed narrowly as portraits of women as victims. In this... more

Pre-Owned Questioning Minds: Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers (Paperback 9780824834098) by Yung-Hee Kim Kim Myong-Sun Na Hye-Sook

9780824834098. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 256. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Hawai i Studies on Korea. Available for the first time in English the ten... more

Pre-Owned Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) Paperback

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Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity (Paperback)

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers - Doris Lessing Anita Desai Mahasweta Devi Buchi Emecheta Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison - are discussed as... more