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