Workings of the spirit : the poetics of Afro-American women's writing

Workings of the spirit : the poetics of Afro-American women's writing /

Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, the author weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against his own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-
Other Authors: Alexander, Elizabeth, Redmond, Patricia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Series:Black literature and culture
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Women and literature > United States.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > Women authors.
Women and literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The daughter's departure : theory, history, and late-nineteenth-century black women's writing
  • Theoretical returns
  • Workings of the spirit : conjure and the space of black women's creativity
  • On knowing our place
  • The changing instant
  • Conclusion. Toward the iterability of ONE.

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