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04668aam a22006258i 4500 001 4AC620B89A4F11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231214010155 008 230717s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023020614 020 $a 0231204728 020 $a 9780231204729 035 $a (OCoLC)1391329559 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d IOU $d BDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d GK8 $d JBZ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS228.W65 $b T48 2023 082 00 $a 810.9/928708996073 $2 23/eng/20230727 100 1 $a Thorsson, Courtney, $d 1978- $e author. 245 14 $a The sisterhood : $b how a network of black women writers changed American culture / $c Courtney Thorsson. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 280 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-268) and index. 505 0 $a "Revolution is not a one-time event" -- "An association of Black Women who are writers/poets/artists" -- "To move the needle in Black women's lives" -- "A community of writers even if they only slap five once a month" -- "A regular profusion of certain / unidentified roses" -- "The function of freedom is to free somebody else" -- "Making use of being used" -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Members of The Sisterhood -- Appendix 2: Meetings of The Sisterhood 520 $a "On February 6, 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Naming itself "The Sisterhood," the group would meet over the next two years to discuss the future of Black literary feminism, how to promote and publicize their work, and the everyday pressures and challenges of being a Black woman writer. This network of individuals, which would also come to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Toni Cade Bambara and Margo Jefferson, as well as other Black women, shaped the direction of Black women's writing and Black literary culture in the post-Civil Rights and post-Black Arts Movement era and its reception in popular culture, the literary marketplace, and the academy. Drawing on meeting notes, interviews with participants their writings, and correspondence, Courtney Thorsson's history of "The Sisterhood" recounts the personal, political, and professional bonds and motivations that shaped the group's history and its dissolution. Turning to the group's legacy, she considers the critical and popular success of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison in the 1980s, the uneasy absorption of Black feminism into the academy, and the racist and misogynistic backlash these writers faced and the limits of mainstream success. Though "The Sisterhood" only formally existed for two years, its impact on American literature and culture, as Thorsson demonstrates, has been profound even as it reveals the limitations of its success"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women authors, Black $z United States. 650 0 $a Feminism in literature. 650 0 $a Community life $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 6 $a LitteÌrature ameÌricaine $y 20e sieÌcle $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a EÌcrits de femmes ameÌricains $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a LitteÌrature ameÌricaine $x Histoire et critique. $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a EÌcrivaines noires $z EÌtats-Unis. 650 6 $a FeÌminisme dans la litteÌrature. 650 6 $a CommunauteÌ $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a American literature $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807271 650 7 $a Community life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00871028 650 7 $a Feminism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922752 650 7 $a Women authors, Black. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177231 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780231555678 941 $a 2 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240502010353.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214032814.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4AC620B89A4F11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b IOWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search