Words of witness : black women's autobiography in the post-Brown era / Angela A. Ards.
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TextSeries: Wisconsin studies in autobiographyPublisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780299305031 (e-book)
- Beals, Melba. Warriors don't cry
- McNatt, Rosemary Bray. Unafraid of the dark
- Jordan, June, 1936-2002. Soldier
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- Brother, I'm dying
- Davis, Eisa. Angela's mixtape
- African American women -- Biography -- Political aspects
- African American women authors -- Biography -- Political aspects
- African American feminists -- Biography
- Autobiography -- African American authors
- Autobiography -- Women authors
- 810.9/49207208996073 23
- PS153.N5 A84 2015
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Post-Brown political aesthetics -- Beyond the strong black woman in Melba Beals's Warriors Don't Cry -- Reclaiming the radicalism of social interdependence in Rosemary Bray's Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir -- Honoring the past to move forward in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood -- Collective storytelling as diasporic consciousness in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying -- Cultivating liberatory joy in Eisa Davis's Angela's Mixtape -- Epilogue: Teaching "the people": bodies, material histories, and the project of black feminist autobiography.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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