Words of Witness: Black Women's Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era

Words of Witness: Black Women's Autobiography in the Post-Brown Era

by Angela A. Ards
     
 

A literary and political genealogy of the last half-century, Words of Witness explores black feminist autobiographical narratives—in particular by June Jordan, Edwidge Danticat, Melba Beals, Rosemary Bray, and Eisa Davis—in the context of activism and history since the landmark 1954 segregation case, Brown vs. the Board of Education.See more details below

Overview

A literary and political genealogy of the last half-century, Words of Witness explores black feminist autobiographical narratives—in particular by June Jordan, Edwidge Danticat, Melba Beals, Rosemary Bray, and Eisa Davis—in the context of activism and history since the landmark 1954 segregation case, Brown vs. the Board of Education.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

“Ambitious, timely, engaging, and provocative. Angela Ards, erudite and remarkably widely read, situates her analysis of a new political ethic grounded in black women’s experience at the intersection of autobiography studies, feminism, black literary history, and cultural and political theory.”—Julia Watson, coeditor of Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9780299305048
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:
01/12/2016
Series:
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography Series
Edition description:
1
Pages:
240