Workings of the spirit : the poetics of Afro-American women's writing /

Workings of the spirit : the poetics of Afro-American women's writing /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1991.
Description:	v, 239 p., [7] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Black literature and culture
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism African American women -- Intellectual life. Women and literature -- United States. African American women in literature African Americans in literature African American women in literature. African American women -- Intellectual life. African Americans in literature. American literature -- African American authors. American literature -- Women authors. Women and literature. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1129508

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Other authors / contributors:	Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- Redmond, Patricia
ISBN:	0226035220 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The Daughter's Departure: Theory, History, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Writing
1. Theoretical Returns
2. Workings of the Spirit: Conjure and the Space of Black Women's Creativity
3. On Knowing Our Place
4. The Changing Instant
Conclusion Toward the Iterability of One
Afterword
Notes
Illustration Sources
Index