Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
Contents |
Foreword by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot -- Foreword to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Emilie M. Townes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Womanism as Unapologetic Moral Agency of Black Women Grounded in Consciousness, Critique, and Creativity -- 1. Surviving the Blight -- 2. The Emergence of Black Feminist Consciousness -- 3. Moral Wisdom in the Black Women's Literary Tradition -- 4. Unctuousness as Virtue: According to the Life of Zora Neale Hurston -- Part Two: Womanism as Indivisibly Inclusive Approach to Justice Making Essential to Survival and Wholeness of Entire People, Male and Female -- 5. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: The Womanist Dilemma in the Development of a Black Liberation Ethic -- 6. Appropriation and Reciprocity in the Doing of Womanist Ethics -- 7. Womanist Interpretation and Preaching in the Black Church -- 8. Sexing Black Women: Liberation from the Prison House of Anatomical Authority -- Part Three: Womanism as Defiant Affirmation of Loving Our Own Sources, Stories, and Culture, Regardless -- 9. Exposing My Home Point of View -- 10. Resources for a Constructive Ethic: The Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston -- 11. Teaching Afrocentric Ethics: "The Hinges upon Which the Future Swings" -- 12. Racism and Economics: The Perspective of Oliver C. Cox -- Part Four: Womanism as Continual Moral Commitment to Participate in Critical and Constructive Movements of the Dance of Redemption in Order to "Remember What We Never Knew" -- 13. Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation -- 14. "The Wounds of Jesus": Justification of Goodness in the Face of Manifold Evil -- 15. Metalogues and Dialogues: Teaching the Womanist Idea -- 16. Unearthing Ethical Treasures: The Intrusive Markers of Social Class -- Conclusion: Womanist Perspectival Discourse and Canon Formation |
Summary |
Over the years, Katie Cannon's students referred to her work in progress as ""Katie's canon."" Not only does this book represent the canon of Cannon's best work; the book itself directly addresses the issues of canon formation and canon reformation. Cannon canonizes a literary tradition and directly addresses both oppression and liberation of African American women. Now in an expanded 25th-anniversary edition, Katie's Canon still packs firepower |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2021) |
Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History
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Women and literature -- United States -- History
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African American women -- Intellectual life
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African American women in literature.
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Womanism in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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Community life in literature.
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Ethics in literature.
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Canon (Literature)
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African American women in literature
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African American women -- Intellectual life
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African Americans in literature
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Canon (Literature)
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Community life in literature
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Ethics in literature
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Feminism and literature
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Womanism in literature
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Women and literature
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781506471303 |
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1506471307 |
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