Changing Our Own Words
Subtitle: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: January 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780813514635
Subjects: Black studies; Literary studies: general; Women's studies; Women authors; Intellectual life; American literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Theory, etc.; Literary Criticism; Theory, etc; American - General; African American authors; African American women; Congresses; History and criticism
First sentence: In the words of critic Hortense Spillers, "the community of black women writing in the United States now can be regarded as a vivid new fact of national life."