No crystal stair : visions of race and gender in black women's fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade.
Edition:	Rev. ed.
Imprint:	Cleveland, Ohio : Pilgrim Press, 1997.
Description:	xxxiii, 251 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism. American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. African American women in literature. African Americans in literature. Race relations in literature. Sex role in literature. African American women in literature. African American women -- Intellectual life. African Americans in literature. American fiction -- African American authors. American fiction -- Women authors. Race relations in literature. Sex role in literature. Women and literature. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2600407

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ISBN:	0829811516 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-247) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to the First Edition / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
A Personal Response / Zillah Eisenstein
1. The Narrow Space of Race, the Dark Enclosure of Sex: The Case for This Book
2. A Historical Overview: Black Women in White America, 1946-1976
3. The Halo and the Hardships: Black Women as Mothers and Sometimes as Wives
4. "Going Nowhere Immediate": Black Women of Hopelessness
5. "Journeying from Can't to Can" and Sometimes Back to "Can't": Black Women of Challenge and Contradiction
6. Giving Birth to Self: The Quests for Wholeness of Sula Mae Peace and Meridian Hill
7. The Space and the Enclosure: The Collective Vision of Black Women
Afterword / Alton Hornsby, Jr.

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