New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000

Author： Christian Barbara

Publisher： University of Illinois Press‎

Publication year： 2007

E-ISBN: 9780252090820

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252031809

Subject： D4 Workers, Peasants , Youth, Womens Movement and Organization;I Literature

Keyword：工人、农民、青年、妇女运动与组织,文学

Language： ENG

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For me, doing black feminist criticism involved a literary activism that went beyond the halls of academe, not because I had so legislated but because in practice that is what it often, happily, had to be.--Barbara Christian, from "But What Do We Think We're Doing Anyway?"_x000B__x000B_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. Touching on her roles as a scholar, teacher, feminist, intellectual, and university activist, this extensive collection of Christian's work demonstrates the wide-ranging scholarship of a passionate and celebrated pioneer. These memorable pieces, which were published between the release of her second landmark book, Black Feminist Criticism, and her death, include evaluations of black feminist criticism as a discipline; reflections on black feminism in the academy; eloquent reviews; and essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and others. _x000B__x000B_

Chapter

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I: DEFINING BLACK FEMINIST CRITICISM

Introduction

1. But What Do We Think We're Doing Anyway: The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of History (1989)

2. What Celie Knows That You Should Know (1990)

3. Fixing Methodologies: Beloved (1993)

4. The Race for Theory (1987)

5. Does Theory Play Well in the Classroom? (1996)

II: READING BLACK WOMEN WRITERS

Introduction

6. Introduction to the Hazelely Family by Mrs. A. E. Johnson (1988)

7. "Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something": African-American Women's Historical Novels (1990)

8. Gloria Naylor's Geography: Communiity, Class, and Partriarchy in The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills (1990)

9. Being the Subject and the Object: Reading African-American Women's Novels (1993)

10. Layered Rhythms: Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison (1994)

11. There It Is: The Poetry of Jayne Cortez (1986)

12. Conversations with the Universe (1989)

13. Epic Achievement (1991)

14. A Checkered Career (1992)

15. Remembering Audre Lorde (1993)

III: BLACK FEMINIST CRITICISM IN THE ACADEMY

Introduction

16. Being "The Subjected Subject of Discourse" (1990)

17. Whose Canon Is It Anyway? (1994)

18. A Rough Terrain: The Case of Shaping an Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers (1995)

19. Diminishing Returns: Can Black Feminism(s) Survive the Academy? (1994)

20. Camouflaging Race and Gender (1996)

Afterword

Notes

Selected Bibliography of Works by Barbara Christian

Index

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