num_pages: 313
description: The most prolific African-American woman author from 1920 to 1950, Hurston was praised for her writing and condemned for her independence, arrogance, and audaciousness. This unique anthology, with fourteen superb examples of her fiction, journalism, folklore, and autobiography, rightfully establishes her as the intellectual and spiritual leader of the next generation of black writers. The original commentary by Alice Walker and Mary Helen Washington, two African-American writers in the forefront of the Hurston revival, provide illuminating insights into Hurston—the writer, and the person—as well as into American social and cultural history.
language: English
title: I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
titlecomplete: I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
genres: Short Stories, Essays, Womens, Race, African American, Feminism, Classics, Anthologies, Fiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 2519
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY