Higashida, Cheryl.

Black internationalist feminism women writers of the Black left, 1945-1995 / [electronic resource] : Cheryl Higashida. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011. - xi, 250 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780252093548 (electronic bk.)




American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Women radicals--History--United States--20th century.
African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.


Electronic books.

PS153.N5 / H54 2011

810.9/928708996073