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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 Littérature américaine $y 20e siècle $x Histoire et critique.
650  6 $a Écrits de femmes américains $x Histoire et critique.
650  6 $a Littérature américaine $x Histoire et critique. $x Histoire et critique.
650  6 $a Écrivaines noires $z États-Unis.
650  6 $a Féminisme dans la littérature.
650  6 $a Communauté $z États-Unis $x Histoire $y 20e siècle.
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650  7 $a Feminism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922752
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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 littéraires. $2 rvmgf
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