African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison

by Tracey L. Walters

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This is a groundbreaking study exploring the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature. 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349369624

ISBN13:9781349369621

Release Date:December 2015

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:197 Pages

Weight:0.54 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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