Black internationalist feminism
Subtitle: women writers of the black left, 1955-1995
By: Cheryl Higashida
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780252036507
Subjects: Feminism and literature; African American authors; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; Women authors; Women radicals; African American women; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The negro question, the woman question, and the vital link: histories and institutions; title: Lorraine Hansberry's existentialist routes to black internationalist feminism; title: Rosalind on the black star line: Alice Childress, black minstrelsy, and Garveyite drag; title: Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the hemispheric woman; title: Audre Lorde revisited: nationalism and second-wave black feminism; title: Reading Maya Angelou, reading black internationalist feminism today.