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
Introduction
The Daughter's Departure: Theory, History, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Writing
1. Theoretical Returns
2. Workings of the Spirit: Conjure and the Space of Black Women's Creativity
3. On Knowing Our Place
4. The Changing Instant
Conclusion
Toward the Iterability of ONE
Afterword
Notes
Illustration Sources
Index
Awards
- Chicago Women in Publishing Annual Awards
Honorable Mention
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