Workings of the Spirit
The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing
With a Phototext by Elizabeth Alexander and Patricia Redmond
256 pages, 40 halftones, frontispiece 6 x 9
©
1991
Series: Black Literature and Culture Series
Cloth $37.50
ISBN: 9780226035222
Published February 1991
Paper $17.00
ISBN: 9780226035239
Published February 1993
Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.
"Brilliant, and tenderly riveted to gratitude as an indispensable facet of analysis, Houston Baker arrives, yet again, bearing the loveliest flowers of his devotion and delight: thank God he's here!"—June Jordan
Awards
- Chicago Women in Publishing Annual Awards
Honorable Mention
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