Title Words of witness : black women's autobiography in the post-Brown era / Angela A. Ards

Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages) Series Wisconsin studies in autobiography Wisconsin studies in autobiography. Contents Introduction: The Ethics of Self-Fashioning -- Moving beyond the strong black woman: Melba Beals's Warriors Don't Cry -- Reclaiming Radical Interdependence: Rosemary Bray's Unafraid of the Dark -- Honoring the past to move forward: June Jordan's Soldier -- Storytelling as diasporic consciousness: Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying -- Cultivating Liberatory Joy: Eisa Davis's Angela's Mixtape -- Epilogue: Bodies, Material Histories, and Black Women's Autobiography Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-216) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 SUBJECT Brother, I'm dying (Danticat, Edwidge) fast Subject African American women -- Biography -- Political aspects African American women authors -- Biography -- Political aspects African American feminists -- Biography Autobiography -- African American authors. Autobiography -- Women authors. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African American feminists Autobiography -- African American authors Autobiography -- Women authors Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book ISBN 9780299305031 0299305031

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