The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory

by Deborah E. McDowell

Book Overview

"The Changing Same" examines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the "Women's Era" of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the "New Black Renaissance" of the 1970s and 1980s. Deborah McDowell maps this history in readings of Emma Dunham Kelley, Frances E. W. Harper, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Sherley Anne Williams. She examines representations of slavery, sexuality, and homoeroticism;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253209269
• ISBN13: 9780253209269
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher