This thesis attempts to document the range of responses African-American women writers have posited regarding their concerns with history, identity and culture. Black female identity and historical experience are presented as inextricably linked by these writers, and coming to terms with racial and gender history is deemed essential towards constructing tenable black female identities. As a result, this thesis finds that African-American women's works consistently assert the necessity of intellectually and emotionally understanding historical experience to become and remain a fully functional black woman. By doing so, I hope this thesis contributes to the process of documenting the linked strategies of persistence by which African- Ame...
This dissertation focuses on narratives of Black girlhood in late twentieth-century African American...
Black women have had to work very hard to pull themselves up the social ladder. Literature reflects ...
The Harlem Renaissance, also known at the Negro Renaissance and the New Negro Movement, was a revolu...
My dissertation focusing on black women's literature explores how the dynamic relationships of black...
My dissertation focusing on black women's literature explores how the dynamic relationships of black...
This dissertation examines the intersection of resistance, gender, and respectability in African Ame...
This thesis examines the ways in which three African-American women writers challenge the racist and...
Since its inception, black feminist criticism has produced a number of sophisticated theoretical wor...
175 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.Although the South has been a...
175 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.Although the South has been a...
This dissertation revises our understanding of how African American women have resisted and transfor...
This thesis will examine the construction of black lesbian identities through historical, literary a...
This dissertation focuses on narratives of Black girlhood in late twentieth-century African American...
Black women have had to work very hard to pull themselves up the social ladder. Literature reflects ...
This dissertation focuses on narratives of Black girlhood in late twentieth-century African American...
This dissertation focuses on narratives of Black girlhood in late twentieth-century African American...
Black women have had to work very hard to pull themselves up the social ladder. Literature reflects ...
The Harlem Renaissance, also known at the Negro Renaissance and the New Negro Movement, was a revolu...
My dissertation focusing on black women's literature explores how the dynamic relationships of black...
My dissertation focusing on black women's literature explores how the dynamic relationships of black...
This dissertation examines the intersection of resistance, gender, and respectability in African Ame...
This thesis examines the ways in which three African-American women writers challenge the racist and...
Since its inception, black feminist criticism has produced a number of sophisticated theoretical wor...
175 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.Although the South has been a...
175 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.Although the South has been a...
This dissertation revises our understanding of how African American women have resisted and transfor...
This thesis will examine the construction of black lesbian identities through historical, literary a...
This dissertation focuses on narratives of Black girlhood in late twentieth-century African American...
Black women have had to work very hard to pull themselves up the social ladder. Literature reflects ...
This dissertation focuses on narratives of Black girlhood in late twentieth-century African American...
This dissertation focuses on narratives of Black girlhood in late twentieth-century African American...
Black women have had to work very hard to pull themselves up the social ladder. Literature reflects ...
The Harlem Renaissance, also known at the Negro Renaissance and the New Negro Movement, was a revolu...