Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xxxiii, 251 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "In this revised edition, Gloria Wade-Gayles analyzes selected novels by such writers as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dorothy West, and Gayl Jones to offer a fresh vision of the roles - and burdens - of black women in contemporary culture." "Contending that black women are "twice burdened" and "doubly invisible" because of their race and gender. Wade-Gayles pulls us into the lives of these fascinating characters to reveal black women as they really are - struggling against isolation, alienation, loneliness, and victimization, all the while seeking wider horizons for their people and space for themselves as persons with aspirations and dreams." "No Crystal Stair is a celebration of black women writers and their collective vision of the human condition."--Jacket.

Subject

1. American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
2. American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
3. African American women > Intellectual life
4. Women and literature > United States
5. African American women in literature
6. African Americans in literature
7. Race relations in literature
8. Sex role in literature
9. American fiction > History and criticism
10. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
11. American literature > Women authors
12. American fiction
13. African American women in literature
14. African American women > Intellectual life
15. African Americans in literature
16. American fiction > African American authors
17. American fiction > Women authors
18. Race relations in literature
19. Sex role in literature
20. Women and literature
21. Ethnische Beziehungen
22. Frauenroman
23. Geschlechterrolle
24. Schwarze
25. Schwarze Frau
26. Gender roles
27. Geschichte 1945-1980
28. United States
29. USA
30. Schwärze

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction to the First Edition / Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- Personal Response / Zillah Eisenstein -- 1. Narrow Space of Race, the Dark Enclosure of Sex: The Case for This Book -- 2. Historical Overview: Black Women in White America, 1946-1976 -- 3. Halo and the Hardships: Black Women as Mothers and Sometimes as Wives -- 4. "Going Nowhere Immediate": Black Women of Hopelessness -- 5. "Journeying from Can't to Can" and Sometimes Back to "Can't": Black Women of Challenge and Contradiction -- 6. Giving Birth to Self: The Quests for Wholeness of Sula Mae Peace and Meridian Hill -- 7. Space and the Enclosure: The Collective Vision of Black Women -- Afterword / Alton Hornsby, Jr.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-247) and index.