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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453143503321

Autore

Higashida Cheryl

Titolo

Black internationalist feminism [[electronic resource] ] : women writers of the Black left, 1945-1995 / / Cheryl Higashida

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011

ISBN

0-252-09354-2

1-283-99248-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/928708996073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - Women authors - 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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

'Black Internationalist Feminism' examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left and developed a distinct strand of feminism.