Culture-bearing Women : : The Black Women Renaissance and Cultural Nationalism /

Culture-bearing Women : : The Black Women Renaissance and Cultural Nationalism / / Izabella Penier.

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This study examines the Black Women's Renaissance (BWR) - the flowering of literary talent among African American women at the end of the 20th century. It focuses on the historical and heritage novels of the 1980s and the vexed relationship between black cultural nationalism and black feminism....

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Penier, Izabella,
Place / Publishing House:Warsaw ;, Berlin : : De Gruyter Open Poland, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (220 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction: The Black Women Renaissance, Matrilineal Romances and the "Volkish Tradition"
  • 2 Mapping the Black Women's Renaissance: The Formative 1970s and the Shift from a Black Nationalist to a Black Womanist Aesthetic
  • 3 Matrifocal Nationalism, Afrocentric Womanism and the Fear of Disinheritance
  • 4 Kulturnation: The Black Women's Renaissance, Folk Heritage and the Essential Black Female Matrix
  • 5 Volknation: The Black Holocaust and the Poetics of the Slave Sublime
  • 6 Culturalism, Classism, and the Politics of Redistribution
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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