Black Women’s Writing

Chapter 1 Introduction. Black and White: Voices, Writers and Readers

Chapter 2 ‘Writing the Body’: Reading Joan Riley, Grace Nichols and Ntozake Shange

Chapter 3 Black Women Writing and Reading

Chapter 4 ‘Long Memoried Women’: Caribbean Women Poets

Chapter 5 ‘Disremembered and Unaccounted For’: Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar

Chapter 6 Art, Action and the Ancestors: Alice Walker’s Meridian in its Context

Chapter 8 Autobiography: The Art of Self-Definition

Chapter 9 Reading from a Distance: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy

Chapter 10 Reconstructing the Past, Shaping the Future: Bessie Head and the Question of Feminism in a New South Africa