Eroticism, spirituality, and resistance in Black women's writings /
Weir-Soley, Donna.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Spirit and flesh: Black female aesthetics -- Cult of nineteenth-century Black womanhood -- Literary interventions in Their eyes were watching God -- Contradictory directives and the erotics of re-membering: new world spiritual practices and Black female subjectivity in Beloved -- The erotics of change: female sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and a "postmodern" Caribbean identity in It begins with tears -- Power, eros, and genocide: capitalism and Black female subjectivity in The farming of bones.
American literature
American literature
African American women authors
Eroticism in literature.
Sex in literature.