Product Description: Since her forced migration to the United States, the African American woman has consciously developed a literary tradition based on fundamental evolutionary principles of mind and body. She has consistently resisted attempts by patriarchs and matriarchs alike to romanticize and redefine that biologically-based literary heritage...read more

Product Description: From their arrival in the country, African American women writers have developed a literary tradition based on their own experiences and have consistently resisted attempts by patriarchal men and, especially, matriarchal women to romanticize and redefine that heritage...read more

Product Description: This unique collection portrays the early twentieth century short story writer, biographer, novelist, essayist, stenographer, and lawyer, Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Readers are shown how Chesnutt was, perhaps, the best African American literary signifier of his day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)