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Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing
Contributor(s): Baker Jr, Houston A. (Author)
ISBN: 0226035239     ISBN-13: 9780226035239
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE:   $27.72  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 1993
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 810.992
LCCN: 90041980
Series: Black Literature and Culture
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6" W x 9" (0.84 lbs) 256 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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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.