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Specifying: Black women writing the American experience (The Wisconsin project on American writers) by Willis, Susan, 1946- is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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Focusing on Zola Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara, this book explores both the ways in which black women's fictions have been shaped by the history of the United states, and the ways in which they intervene in that history. She sees the transition from an agrarian to an urban society as the critical moment of that history, and argues that writings by black women articulate that change in their content as well as form. ISBN 0-299-10890-2 : $19.95.

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Willis, Susan, 1946-
Publisher
Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press
Published
1987
Language
EN
ISBN
9780299108908
Category
literary studies
Subjects
Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
Updated
2026-03-25

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