Render Me My Song: African American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present

By Sandi Russell

Book Overview

From Phyllis Wheatley, who survived the slave ships to become the most renowned woman poet in eighteenth-century America, to Sojourner Truth, whose voice remains electrifying today; from Zora Neale Hurston, the Genius of the South, to the gifted generation of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and others, this is the story of these black women writers and their epic struggles.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031205288X
• ISBN13: 9780312052881
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.7"