Title: Arms akimbo
Description: "In an examination of the fiction of contemporary women writers of the African Diaspora, these writers engage important texts from writers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, largely ignored by mainstream literary scholars. They employ fresh and poignant critical perspectives accessible to both scholars and students.

The editors provide a comprehensive historical and critical overview of black women's studies as it has developed transnationally and they cogently situate these essays within this rapidly developing field."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: African literature, American literature, Women, Black, in literature, African American women in literature, Women in literature, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Écrits de femmes américains, Histoire et critique, Noires dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, Languages & Literatures, Literature--women authors--history and criticism, African American women -- Intellectual life., African diaspora in literature, Caribbean literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism, Littérature francophone, Afro-American authors, History and criticism, Caribbean literature, Women authors, Women and literature, History, African American authors, African American women, Intellectual life
Places: African continent, Salem (Mass.), Grenada, Guyana
People: o, Ama Ata Aidoo (1942-), Jamaica Kincaid, Beryl Gilroy, Maryse Condé, Merle Collins, Mariama Bâ, Bessie Head (1937-1986), Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa (1931-), Sapphire (1950-), Paule Marshall (1929-), Sylvia Wynter
Time periods: 20th century