Words of witness [electronic resource] :black women's autobiography in the post-Brown era / Angela A. Ards.
By: Ards, Angela Ann [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Wisconsin studies in autobiography: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780299305031; 0299305031.Subject(s): Autobiography -- Women authors | Autobiography -- African American authors | African American feminists -- Biography | African American women authors -- Biography -- Political aspects | African American women -- Biography -- Political aspects | 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 cryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 810.9/49207208996073 Online resources: Full text available: 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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