Cultural sites of critical insight : philosophy, aesthetics, and African American and Native American women's writings / edited by Angela L. Cotten and Christa Davis Acampora.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index.
Contents
On the "res" and in the "hood" : making cultures, leaving legacies / Angela L. Cotten -- Self-help, Indian style? : Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers of the light, womanist self-recovery and the politics of transformation / Ana Louise Keating -- Making the awakening hers : Phillis Wheatley and the transposition of African spirituality to Christian religiosity / Elizabeth J. West -- "Any woman's blues" : Sherley Anne Williams and the blues aesthetic / Michael A. Antonucci -- Through the mirror : re-Surfacing and self-articulation in Linda Hogan's Solar storms / Ellen L. Arnold -- Red-Black center of Alice Walker's Meridian : asserting a Cherokee womanist sensibility / Barbara S. Tracy -- Womanist interventions in historical materialism / Angela L. Cotten -- "Both the law and its transgression" : Toni Morrison's Paradise and "post"-Black feminism / Noelle Morrissette -- Luci Tapahonso's "Leda and the cowboy" : a gynocratic, Navajo response to Yeats's "Leda and the swan" / Maggie Romigh -- Mother times two : a double take on a gynocentric justice song / Margot R. Reynolds.