Black Feminist Literary Criticism

This book attempts to trace trajectories in black feminist theorizing that have emerged in American scholarship since the 1990s. The book focuses on recent black feminist contributions to literary productions and their impact on other fields.

Since its inception, black feminist literary criticism has produced a number of sophisticated theoretical works that have challenged traditional approaches to (black) literature. This collection of essays explores past and current productions of black feminist theorizing, attempting to trace the trajectories in black feminist criticism that have emerged in American scholarship since the 1990s. Taking black feminist literary criticism as the subject of inquiry, the book focuses on the field's recent theoretical contributions to literary productions and their impact on other fields. The volume contains an introduction by Cheryl A. Wall, and essays by Karla Kovalova, Heike Raphael-Hernandez, and Nagueyalti Warren.

Autorentext

Karla Kovalova holds a Ph.D. in Modern History and Literature with emphases in African American and African studies and Women s studies from Drew University (USA). She teaches at the English Department of the University of Ostrava, Ostrava (Czech Republic).

Inhalt

Contents: Karla Kovalova: Preface - Cheryl A. Wall: The Writer as Critic in the Emergence of Black Feminism - Nagueyalti Warren: Home Girls and Sister Outsider: The Roots of Black Feminist Literary Criticism - Karla Kovalova: New Directions and Contradictory Impulses: The Development of Black Feminist Literary Theory - Karla Kovalova: Literary Tradition and Black Aesthetics Revisited: Black Feminist Approaches to African American Literature in the Twenty-First Century - Heike Raphael-Hernandez: From White Gaze to Black Female Resistance: Street Lit and Popular Cultural Productions in Black Feminist Theorizing - Karla Kovalova: Blackness and Whiteness Within and Without the U.S. Context: Pushing the (National) Boundaries of Black Feminist Literary Criticism - Karla Kovalova: Afterword.