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Format:

Book

Title:

Black American women poets and dramatists / edited, and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

xii, 247 pages ; 24 cm.

Summary:

The seventeen women poets and dramatists described are Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Childress, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Lorraine Hansberry, Frances E.W. Harper, Georgia Douglas Johnson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Thylias Moss, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Margaret Walker, and Phillis Wheatley. A biographical summary, critical extracts and a bibliographical listing are provided for each author.

Series:

Writers of English

Writers of English.

Subjects:

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

American literature -- African American authors -- Bio-bibliography.

American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

American literature -- Women authors -- Bio-bibliography.

African American women -- Intellectual life.

Women and literature -- United States.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Bibliographies.

Other Author:

Bloom, Harold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Maya Angelou -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Alice Childress -- Lucille Clifton -- Rita Dove -- Nikki Giovanni -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Frances E.W. Harper -- Georgia Douglas Johnson -- June Jordan -- Audre Lorde -- Thylias Moss -- Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Sonia Sanchez -- Nrozake Shange -- Margaret Walker -- Phillis Wheatley.

LCCN:

94004337

ISBN:

0791022099

9780791022092

9780791022344

0791022099

079102234X (pbk.)

Other Number:

29844982

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

82144

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

810.99287 Black Am