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<p>Women have had a complex experience in African American culture. The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia approaches African American literature from a Women's Studies perspective. While Yolanda Williams Page's <i>Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers</i> provides biographical entries on more than 150 literary figures, this book is much broader in scope. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries on African American women writers, as well as on male writers who have treated women in their works. Entries on genres, periods, themes, characters, historical events, texts, places, and other topics are included as well. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and relates its subject to the overall experience of women in African American literature. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.</p> <p>African American culture is enormously diverse, and the experience of women in African American society is especially complex. Women were among the first African American writers, and works by black women writers are popular among students and general readers alike. At the same time, Africa

Author

Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu

Publisher

Greenwood Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780313331985

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-24