LEADER 04062nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910779200903321 005 20221130153004.0 010 $a1-283-45519-6 010 $a9786613455192 010 $a1-60473-735-2 024 7 $aheb40097 035 $a(CKB)2550000000088956 035 $a(EBL)866925 035 $a(OCoLC)318813220 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000632317 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11463185 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632317 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10609655 035 $a(PQKB)10020115 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866925 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL866925 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10531950 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL345519 035 $a(dli)heb40097.0001.001 035 $a(MiU)MIU400970001001 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000088956 100 $a19990809d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAutobiography as activism$b[electronic resource] $ethree Black women of the Sixties /$fMargo V. Perkins 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (182 p.) 225 0 $aMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies Visionary women writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement 300 $aBased on the author's thesis (Cornell University). 311 $a1-57806-264-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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; 330 $aA 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... 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American women political activists$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors 606 $aAfrican American women in literature 606 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American women political activists$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors. 615 0$aAfrican American women in literature. 615 0$aAutobiography$xWomen authors. 676 $a305.48/896073/00922 700 $aPerkins$b Margo V$01545918 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779200903321 996 $aAutobiography as activism$93801162 997 $aUNINA