African american literature and the classicist tradition: black women writers from wheatley to morrison
Auteur :
Walters, T.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349369621
Date de publication :
23 déc. 2015
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
A comparative analysis of classical revisions by eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women writers Phillis Wheatley and Pauline Hopkins and twentieth century writers Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, and Rita Dove reveals that Black women writers revise specific classical myths for artistic and political agency.