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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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- 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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