Title "The changing same" : black women's literature, criticism, and theory / Deborah E. McDowell.

Publication Info.	Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [1995]
	©1995

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS374.B635 M37 1995 1995	Available	---

Description	xviii, 222 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Thinking about methods -- New directions for black feministcriticism -- Race of Saints: Four Girls at Cottage City -- "Changing Same": generational connections and black women novelists--Iola Leroy and The Color Purple -- Undercover: passing and other disguises -- On face: the marks of identity in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun or getting read in the Harlem Renaissance -- "Nameless ... Shameful Impulse": sexuality in Nella Larsen"s Quicksand and Passing -- Reader in the text -- Boundaries: or distant relations and close kin--Sula -- Reading family matters -- Hesitating between tenses or allegories of history -- Witnessing slavery after freedom--Dessa Rose -- Transferences: black feminist thinking: the "practice" of "theory".
Subject	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- African American authors.
	American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- Women authors.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History.
	Women and literature.
	United States.
	History.
	African American women -- Intellectual life.
	African American women -- Intellectual life.
	African American women.
	African American women in literature.
	African American women in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
ISBN	0253209269 paperback alkaline paper