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Author Willis, Susan, 1946-

Title Specifying : Black women writing the American experience / Susan Willis.

Publication Info. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  813.509 W735S    Check Shelf
Description 186 pages ; 23 cm.
Series The Wisconsin project on American writers
Wisconsin project on American writers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index.
Form Also issued online.
Contents Histories, communities, and sometimes utopia -- Wandering: Zora Neale Hurston's search for self and method -- Describing arcs of recovery: Paule Marshall's relationship to Afro-American culture -- Eruptions of funk: historicizing Toni Morrison -- Alice Walker's women -- Problematizing the individual: Toni Cade Bambara's stories for the Revolution -- Envisioning the future.
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
African American women -- Intellectual life.
Literature and history -- United States.
Women and literature -- United States.
African American women in literature.
United States -- In literature.
History in literature.
ISBN 0299108902
9780299108908
0299108945
9780299108946
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