Reading contemporary African American literature : Black women's popular fiction, post-civil rights experience, and the African American canon /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bragg, Beauty, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The reconstructionist canon, Black feminist literary perspectives, and popular potential
  • Toni Morrison's tar baby and the problem of classification
  • Girlfriend fiction : Black women writers and readers negotiating post-civil rights womanhood
  • Feminism and the streets : urban fiction and the quest for female independence in the era of transactional sexuality
  • Hip hop tell-all memoirs and modes of self-construction
  • Conclusion : from critical practice to classroom practice.