Womans Black Liquid Leggings

For use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses on Africana women writers, scholars offer critical analysis of women who, though often little known to wider audiences, have contributed significantly to Africana literature. Reflecting a trend in the field, most apply feminist criticism to the works and writers. The topics include Bessie Head's perspective on women, the African response to American feminism in the work of Flora Nwapa and Alice Walker, and Buchi Emecheta and the politics...

Oxford University Press, in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, rescued the voice of an entire segment of the black tradition by offering volumes of compelling and rare works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, essays, and journalism, written by nineteenth-century black women. Responding to the wide recognition this series has received, Oxford now presents four more of these volumes in paperback (to add to...