New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000

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ISBN: 9780252031809 | 0252031806
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Copyright: 11/19/2007

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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.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Defining Black Feminist Criticism
Introduction	p. 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)	p. 5
What Celie Knows That You Should Know (1990)	p. 20
Fixing Methodologies: Beloved (1993)	p. 31
The Race for Theory (1987)	p. 40
Does Theory Play Well in the Classroom? (1996)	p. 51
Reading Black Women Writers
Introduction	p. 69
Introduction to The Hazeley Family	p. 79
"Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something": African-American Women's Historical Novels (1990)	p. 86
Gloria Naylor's Geography: Community, Class, and Patriarchy in The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills (1990)	p. 99
Being the Subject and the Object: Reading African-American Women's Novels (1993)	p. 120
Layered Rhythms: Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison (1994)	p. 127
There It Is: The Poetry of Jayne Cortez (1986)	p. 142
Conversations with the Universe (1989)	p. 147
Epic Achievement (1991)	p. 152
A Checkered Career (1992)	p. 157
Remembering Audre Lorde (1993)	p. 164
Black Feminist Criticism in the Academy
Introduction	p. 169
Being "The Subjected Subject of Discourse" (1990)	p. 173
Whose Canon Is It Anyway? (1994)	p. 182
A Rough Terrain: The Case of Shaping an Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers (1995)	p. 187
Diminishing Returns: Can Black Feminism(s) Survive the Academy? (1994)	p. 204
Camouflaging Race and Gender (1996)	p. 216
Afterword	p. 225
Notes	p. 227
Selected Bibliography of Works	p. 241
Index	p. 245
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