Workings of the Spirit
The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing
With a Phototext by Elizabeth Alexander and Patricia Redmond
256 pages
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40 halftones, frontispiece
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6 x 9
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© 1991
Contents
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
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
Chicago Women in Publishing: Chicago Women in Publishing Annual Awards
Honorable Mention
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