Black Women’s Writing Revisited: Womanism, Black Consciousness, and Postcolonial Connections
Special issue of “gender forum” – Guest ed. Sabine Broeck, University of Bremen
The special issue means to address a number of literary, essayistic and
political texts by influential black women writers such as Audre Lorde,
Angela Davis, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Barbara Christian, Hortense Spiller, Sylvia Wynter, Ntozake Shange, and Michelle Cliff. After a short heyday of public attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s, these writers have disappeared into teaching canons of “African-American Literature,” Multicultural USA, or Writing and Gender in the US, or – outside the US of the only occasionally taught Black Studies seminar. Continue reading
