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Author:

Harwell, Osizwe Raena, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016001057

Title:

This woman's work : the writing and activism of Bebe Moore Campbell / Osizwe Raena Jamila Harwell.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xx, 199 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Campbell, Bebe Moore,--1950-2006--Political and social views.
African American authors--Biography.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
African American women political activists--Biography.
Social change in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--African American Studies.--African American Studies.
Campbell, Bebe Moore,--1950-2006.
African American authors.
African American women political activists.
Authors, American.
Mental illness in literature.
Political and social views.
Race relations in literature.
Social change in literature.
1900-1999
Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194) and index.

Contents:

Campus Activism and Community Mental Health Awareness. The University of Pittsburgh and the Black Action Society: Campbell's Early Years as a Student Activist -- Private Matters and Public Health: Campbell Takes On Mental Illness at Home and in the Community -- Reading Campbell's First and Last Novels as Activist Text. A Novel Beginning: Campbell 's Emergence as a Fiction Writer with Your Blues Ain't Like Mine -- From Podium to Pen and Paper: 72 Hour Hold as Commentary, Critique, and Catharsis.

Summary:

"This Woman's Work presents a social history and critical biography based on the life of award-winning writer Bebe Moore Campbell (1950-2006). It offers the personal story of a popular novelist, journalist, and mental health advocate. This book examines Campbell's life and activism in two periods: first, as a student at the University of Pittsburgh during the 1960s black student movement and, second, as a mental health advocate near the end of her life in 2006. It describes Campbell's activism within the Black Action Society from 1967 to 1971 and her negotiation of the Black Nationalist ideologies espoused during the 1960s. The book also explores Campbell's later involvement in the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), her role as a national spokesperson, and the local activism that sparked the birth of the NAMI Urban-Los Angeles chapter, which served black and Latino communities (1999-2006). Adjacent to her activist work, Campbell's first novel, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, connects to her emerging political consciousness (related to race and gender) and the concern for racial violence during the US black liberation period from 1950 to 1970. Similarly Campbell's final novel, 72 Hour Hold, is examined closely for its connection to her activism as well as the sociopolitical commentary, emphasis on mental health disparities, coping with mental illness, and advocacy in black communities. As a writer and activist, Campbell immersed her readers in immediately relevant historical and sociopolitical matters. This Woman's Work is the first full-length biography of Bebe Moore Campbell and details the seamless marriage of her fiction writing and community activism"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

ISBN:

1496807588
9781496807588

OCLC:

(OCoLC)930257171

LCCN:

2015044828

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)