Ards, Angela Ann, 1969-

Words of witness black women's autobiography in the post-Brown era / [electronic resource] : Angela A. Ards. - Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Wisconsin studies in autobiography . - Wisconsin studies in autobiography. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Post-Brown political aesthetics -- Beyond the strong black woman in Melba Beals's Warriors Don't Cry -- Reclaiming the radicalism of social interdependence in Rosemary Bray's Unafraid of the Dark: A Memoir -- Honoring the past to move forward in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood -- Collective storytelling as diasporic consciousness in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying -- Cultivating liberatory joy in Eisa Davis's Angela's Mixtape -- Epilogue: Teaching "the people": bodies, material histories, and the project of black feminist autobiography.

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Davis, Eisa. Angela's mixtape.
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-. Brother, I'm dying.
Jordan, June, 1936-2002. Soldier.
McNatt, Rosemary Bray. Unafraid of the dark.
Beals, Melba. Warriors don't cry.


Autobiography--Women authors.
Autobiography--African American authors.
African American feminists--Biography.
African American women authors--Biography--Political aspects.
African American women--Biography--Political aspects.


Electronic books.

PS153.N5 / A84 2016

810.9/49207208996073