The Unruly Voice
Subtitle: REDISCOVERING PAULINE ELIZABETH HOPKINS
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780252065545
Subjects: Language, Literature And Biography; USA; American - General; Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism
First sentence: Hortense Spillers's words, taken from her 1987 article, "Mama's Baby, Papa's maybe: An American Grammar Book," point to the importance of self-representation for contemporary African American women writers and to the urgency of the need to articulate identity through a discourse which, if not one's own, might be temporarily appropriated as such.