Changing Our Own Words

Changing Our Own Words
Author: Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 1990
Genre: African American women
ISBN: 9780415054614


Download Changing Our Own Words Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Writing by and about black women - an activity once regarded as marginal - has become essential to any consideration of the role of literature in society. Black women's writing raises issues of race, class, and gender, and questions the formation of the literary canon, the creation and maintenance of tradition, and the role of the media in controlling perceptions of what matters.