| Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing Contributor(s): Baker Jr, Houston A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226035220 ISBN-13: 9780226035222 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1991 Annotation: Houston Baker's new study engages two highly charged topics in literary scholarship: black women's writing and the place of theory in Afro-American literary criticism. The outpouring of novels, poems, and essays by black women writers in recent years has fruitfully complicated relations between feminist and Afro-American literary criticism. Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own account of the persistently theoretical character of Afro-American intellectual history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.992 |
| LCCN: 90041980 |
| Series: Black Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.28" W x 9.25" (1.00 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, Workings of the Spirit weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history. Brilliant, and tenderly riveted to gratitude as an indispensable facet of analysis, Houston Baker arrives, yet again, bearing the loveliest flowers of his devotion and delight: thank God he's here --June Jordan |
Contributor Bio(s): Baker Jr, Houston A.: - Houston A. Baker is Distinguished University Professor and a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He has been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has been a resident fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Humanities Center. He has served as president of the Modern Language Association and as editor of the journal American Literature. |