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Pitfalls of prestige : Black women and literary recognition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vrana, Laura (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Dove, Rita > Criticism and interpretation.
Alexander, Elizabeth, > 1962- > Criticism and interpretation.
Obadike, Mendi Lewis, > 1973- > Criticism and interpretation.
Trethewey, Natasha D., > 1966- > Criticism and interpretation.
Rankine, Claudia, > 1963- > Criticism and interpretation.
Philip, Marlene Nourbese, > 1947- > Criticism and interpretation.
African American women poets.
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
Poétesses noires américaines.
Poésie américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Remembering the (re)generations of Black women's poetics
  • The color of prestige
  • Navigating the ivory tower
  • Interlude
  • Text, performance, and embodiment
  • Experiments in lyric
  • Historical experiments in representing slavery
  • Coda: Graywolf and the "post"(-Citizen) era?