Rediscovering Black Women's Literature. Review Essay [Book Review].

George, Hermon, Jr.

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ERIC Number: EJ466377

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Publication Date: 1992

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Rediscovering Black Women's Literature. Review Essay [Book Review].

George, Hermon, Jr.

Black Scholar, v22 n4 p29-36 Fall 1992

These volumes offer a blend of genres, authors, and purposes. Specific portraits are provided for each volume in chronological order. The central historical and educational values are in the view that the books give of the world of petit-bourgeois African-American women at the turn of the century. (SLD)

Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Black Achievement, Black Culture, Black History, Black Literature, Book Reviews, Books, Females, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Literature Reviews, Middle Class, Novels, Poetry, United States History

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Language: English

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Note: Theme Issue: "Black Culture 1992." Reviews 10 volumes of Africna-American women's literature issued by the Oxford Univ. Press and the Schomberg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers.