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Author:

Higashida, Cheryl.

Title:

Black internationalist feminism : women writers of the Black left, 1945-1995 / Cheryl Higashida.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xi, 250 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Women radicals--United States--History--20th century.
African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The negro question, the woman question, and the vital link : histories and institutions -- Lorraine Hansberry's existentialist routes to black internationalist feminism -- Rosalind on the black star line : Alice Childress, black minstrelsy, and Garveyite drag -- Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the hemispheric woman -- Audre Lorde revisited : nationalism and second-wave black feminism -- Reading Maya Angelou, reading black internationalist feminism today.

ISBN:

0252036506 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780252036507 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)719427902

LCCN:

2011047442

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)