Black internationalist feminism : women writers of the Black left, 1955-1995 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Higashida, Cheryl
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century. Women radicals > United States > History > 20th century. African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

The negro question, the woman question, and the vital link: histories and institutions
Lorraine Hansberry's existentialist routes to black internationalist feminism
Rosalind on the black star line: Alice Childress, black minstrelsy, and Garveyite drag
Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the hemispheric woman
Audre Lorde revisited: nationalism and second-wave black feminism
Reading Maya Angelou, reading black internationalist feminism today.