The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship write by Nahum N. Welang. This book was released on 2022-10-17. The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship, the author examines how three popular black female authors (Roxane Gay, Beyoncé and Issa Rae) simultaneously complement and complicate hegemonic notions of race, identity and gender in contemporary American culture.
Black Women Writers at Work
Black Women Writers at Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Women Writers at Work write by Claudia Tate. This book was released on 2023-01-10. Black Women Writers at Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” —Claudia Tate, from the introduction Long out-of-print, Black Women Writers At Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century. Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks. Alexis Deveaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Tillie Olson, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margret Walker, and Shirley Anne Williams, the book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after. Responding to questions about why and for whom they write, and how they perceive their responsibility to their work, to others, and to society, the featured playwrights, poets, novelists, and essayists provide a window into the connections between their lives and their art. Finally available for a new generation, this classic work has an urgent message for readers and writers today.
Spatializing Social Justice
Spatializing Social Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spatializing Social Justice write by Maryann P. DiEdwardo. This book was released on 2019-03-12. Spatializing Social Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Spatializing Social Justice: Literary Critiques Maryann P. DiEdwardo uses seven literary critiques and seven reflections to share her newest research about the healing power of literature. DiEdwardo argues that literacy is the lifelong intellectual process of gaining meaning from a critical interpretation of written or printed text.
The Matrimonial Trap
The Matrimonial Trap - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Matrimonial Trap write by Laura E. Thomason. This book was released on 2013-12-05. The Matrimonial Trap available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mary Delany’s phrase “the matrimonial trap” illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely choosing a husband. They faced marriage anxiously because they lacked the power either to avoid it or to define it for themselves. For some women, the written word became a means by which to exercise the power that they otherwise lacked. Through their writing, they made the inevitable acceptable while registering their dissatisfaction with their circumstances. Rhetoric, exercised both in public and in private, allowed these women to define their identities as individuals and as wives, to lay out and test the boundaries of more egalitarian spousal relationships, and to criticize the traditional marriage system as their culture had defined it.
Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim
Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim write by Juliane Römhild. This book was released on 2014-06-25. Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Elizabeth von Arnim anonymously published her debut Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898), she became a literary star overnight. The mystery surrounding the identity of this witty aristocratic diarist in her romantic garden kept readers guessing: Who was Elizabeth? A Prussian Princess? The daughter of Queen Victoria? Throughout her long and successful career as one of England’s best satirical novelists, von Arnim never officially revealed her identity. Instead, to her readers and friends she simply became known as “Elizabeth.” From her first book to her capricious autobiography All the Dogs of My Life (1936), throughout her career von Arnim would explore questions of identity and self-representation. And in spite of von Arnim’s love of masquerades and guises, her books include funny and surprisingly personal meditations on the challenges of being a woman writer wrestling with a masculine literary tradition, of taking pride in one’s commercial success while moving in Modernist circles, and of being both a hard-working professional and an elegant hostess. In tracing the conflict between femininity and authorship in von Arnim’s works, this book engages with key literary issues of the time. Von Arnim’s early books offer a witty critique of New Woman fiction. Von Arnim’s self-positioning on the literary market and her relationships with writers like Katherine Mansfield, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf shed light on the relationship between middlebrow and modernist literature. Von Arnim’s complex autobiography, finally, gives a tentative answer to the all-important question: can a writing woman be a lady?
