Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing - Softcover
Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.
"Brilliant, and tenderly riveted to gratitude as an indispensable facet of analysis, Houston Baker arrives, yet again, bearing the loveliest flowers of his devotion and delight: thank God he's here!"—June Jordan
"Brilliant, and tenderly riveted to gratitude as an indispensable facet of analysis, Houston Baker arrives, yet again, bearing the loveliest flowers of his devotion and delight: thank God he's here!"—June Jordan
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From the Back Cover:
Houston Baker's new study engages two highly charged topics in literary scholarship: black women's writing and the place of theory in Afro-American literary criticism. The outpouring of novels, poems, and essays by black women writers in recent years has fruitfully complicated relations between feminist and Afro-American literary criticism. Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own account of the persistently theoretical character of Afro-American intellectual history.
About the Author:
Houston A. Baker, Jr., is professor of English and the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also directs the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture.
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- ISBN 10 0788152874
- ISBN 13 9780788152870
- BindingPaperback
- IllustratorAlexander Elizabeth, Redmond Patricia
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