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Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers From Slavery to the Present
Render Me My Song AfricanAmerican Women Writers From Slavery to the Present Author:Sandi Russell This essential text for newcomers and experts alike combines a broad survey of African American women's writing with a vivid critique by Sandi Russell, inspired by her discovery of her own cultural inheritance. — This was the first book to focus on the full scope of African American women's writing and creativity. It has now been completely revis... more »ed and is reissued with a new introduction. Filling as it does the growing demand for critical work on black women's writing, it is particularly suited to undergraduate courses in literature, women's studies and American studies.
In the last decade, black women writers have comes into their own. The voices of Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker resonate throughout the world. But these authors did not appear from nowhere. Sine the first slaves were taken from Africa to America in 1619, black women have been telling tales, singing songs, and evaluating in language the world in which they have had to live. This is the story of these women, and their struggle to be heard - from the eighteenth-century enslaved poet, Phillis Wheatley, through the rediscovery of the "Genius of the South", Zora Neale Hurston, the political activism of Angela Davis, to the gifted generation of Audre Lorde,Gloria Naylor and Ntozake Shange.« less