BLACK WOMEN WRITERS
1950 - 1980
A Critical Evaluation
edited by MARI EVANS

afbook14.jpg (12012 bytes) "The most distinctive feature of Black Women Writers is its organization. An organization that makes it possible to present in a single valome (a) the writer's reflection on her work, her intentions, inspirations and goals, (b) a substantial evaluation by two perceptive critics and (c) the hard biographical and bibliographical data that often provide their own curb against sentimentality on one hand and excessive speculation on the other"
                                                       -Stephen Henderson, Ph.D., from the Introduction

"I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her talking people"
                                                                                       -Maya Angelou
"If anything I do, in the way of writing novels, or whatever I write, isn't about the village or the community or about you, then it isn't about anything."
                                                                                      -Toni Morrison
"I gathered up the historical and psychological threads of the life my ancestors lived, and in my writing of it I felt joy and strength and my own continuity."
                                                                                       -Alice Walker

* A critical evaluation of Black women writers 1950 - 1980 with some excerpts
* The writers speak for themselves on motivation, influences and backround to mention some
* Included in the evaluation MAYA ANGELO * TONI CADE BAMBARA * GWENDOLYN BROOKS * ALICE CHILDRESS *
    LUCILLE CLIFTON * MARI EVANS * NIKKI GIOVANNI * GAYL JONES * AUDRE LORDE * PAULE MARSHALL * TONI MORRISON *
    CAROLYN RODGERS * SONIA SANCHEZ * MARGARET WALKER
* Includes biographical sketches


Mari Evans, editor of this volume and herself the subject of one of the selections, is the author of the critically acclaimed                       collection of poetry I Am a Black Woman. 
     

BLACK WOMEN
WRITERS
1950 - 1980


A Critical Evaluation

MARI EVANS

                  

Softcover
ISBN: 0-385-17125-0

AN ANCHOR BOOK


526 pages, 543 with notes
Dimensions 8&1/4x5&3/8x1&1/2 inches
Price:  U.S. $13.95
        Canada: $16.95

 

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