The Unruly Voice
Subtitle: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: June 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780252022302
Subjects: Black studies; Literary studies: general; Literature: Texts; Novels, other prose & writers; Women's studies; African American Literature; Women As Authors (American Literature); Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; (Pauline Elizabeth); History; Hopkins, Pauline E; Literature and society; Political and social views; Politics and literature; United States; Women and literature
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.