04805nam 2200817Ia 450 991097423000332120251116215759.09780791480571079148057797814294657001429465700(CKB)1000000000472563(SSID)ssj0000133534(PQKBManifestationID)11152773(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133534(PQKBWorkID)10061952(PQKB)11355733(OCoLC)123415297(MdBmJHUP)muse6502(Au-PeEL)EBL3407467(CaPaEBR)ebr10575893(OCoLC)923405439(DE-B1597)681524(DE-B1597)9780791480571(MiAaPQ)EBC3407467(Perlego)2672067(EXLCZ)99100000000047256320060320d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCultural sites of critical insight philosophy, aesthetics, and African American and Native American women's writings /edited by Angela L. Cotten and Christa Davis Acampora1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc2007viii, 216 pBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791469804 0791469808 9780791469798 0791469794 Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index.On the "res" and in the "hood" : making cultures, leaving legacies /Angela L. Cotten --Self-help, Indian style? Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers of the light, womanist self-recovery and the politics of transformation /Ana Louise Keating --Making the awakening hers : Phiillis Wheatley and the transposition of African spirituality to Christian religiosity /Elizabeth J. West --"Any woman's blues" : Sherley Anne WIlliams and the blues aesthetic /Michael A. Antonucci --Through the mirror : re-Surfacing and self-articulation in Linda Hogan's Solar storms /Ellen L. Arnold --Red-black center of Alice Walker's Meridian : asserting a Cherokee womanist sensibility /Barbara S. Tracy --Womanist interventions in historical materialism /Angela L. Cotten --"Both the law and its transgression" : Toni Morrison's Paradise and "post"-Black feminism /Noelle Morrissette --Luci Tapahonso's "Leda and the cowboy" : a gynocratic, Navajo response to Yeats's "Leda and the swan" /Maggie Romigh --Mother times two : a double take on a gynocentric justice song /Margot R. Reynolds.Bringing together criticism on both African American and Native American women writers, this book offers fresh perspectives on art and beauty, truth, justice, community, and the making of a good and happy life. The essays draw on interdisciplinary, feminist, and comparative methods in the works of writers such as Toni Morrison, Leslie Silko, Alice Walker, Linda Hogan, Paula Gunn Allen, Luci Tapahonso, Phillis Wheatley, and Sherley Anne Williams, making them more accessible for critical consideration in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, and critical theory. The contributors formulate unique frameworks for interpreting the multiple levels of complex, cultural play between Native American and African American women writers in America, and pave the way for innovative hermeneutic possibilities for reassessing writers of both traditions.African American women authorsAestheticsAfrican American women in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureIndian authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismFeminism in literatureIndian women authorsAestheticsIndian women in literatureAfrican American women authorsAesthetics.African American women in literature.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureIndian authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Feminism in literature.Indian women authorsAesthetics.Indian women in literature.810.9/928708996073Acampora Christa Davis1967-1806257Cotten Trystan T.1968-1891885MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974230003321Cultural sites of critical insight4536247UNINA