04062nam 2200781 a 450 991077920090332120221130153004.01-283-45519-697866134551921-60473-735-2heb40097(CKB)2550000000088956(EBL)866925(OCoLC)318813220(SSID)ssj0000632317(PQKBManifestationID)11463185(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632317(PQKBWorkID)10609655(PQKB)10020115(MiAaPQ)EBC866925(Au-PeEL)EBL866925(CaPaEBR)ebr10531950(CaONFJC)MIL345519(dli)heb40097.0001.001(MiU)MIU400970001001(EXLCZ)99255000000008895619990809d2000 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAutobiography as activism[electronic resource] three Black women of the Sixties /Margo V. PerkinsJackson University Press of Mississippic20001 online resource (182 p.)Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies Visionary women writers of Chicago's Black Arts MovementBased on the author's thesis (Cornell University).1-57806-264-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 ""I am We"": Black Women Activists Writing Autobiography; Chapter 2 Literary Antecedents in the Struggle for Freedom; Chapter 3 On Becoming: Activists' Reflections on Their Formative Experiences; Chapter 4 Autobiography as Political/Personal Intervention; Chapter 5 Gender and Power Dynamics in 1960's Black Nationalist Struggle; Chapter 6 Reading Intertextually: Black Power Narratives Then and Now; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index;A study of three Black Power narratives as instruments for radical social change Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. In bearing witness to that era, these militant newsmakers wrote in part to educate and to mobilize their anticipated readers. In this way, Davis's Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974), Shakur's Assata (1987), and Brown's A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (1992) can all be read as extensions of the writers' political activism during...American prose literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican American women political activistsBiographyHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican American womenIntellectual life20th centuryAfrican AmericansBiographyHistory and criticismAutobiographyAfrican American authorsAfrican American women in literatureAutobiographyWomen authorsAmerican prose literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African American women political activistsBiographyHistory and criticism.American prose literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryAfrican American womenIntellectual lifeAfrican AmericansBiographyHistory and criticism.AutobiographyAfrican American authors.African American women in literature.AutobiographyWomen authors.305.48/896073/00922Perkins Margo V1545918MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779200903321Autobiography as activism3801162UNINA