Author: Twagilimana, Aimable
Title: Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition
Description: New York / London, Garland Publishing, 1997. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xxiii,177 pp. Minor rubbing, a label to rear cover, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Fictions of (Cultural) Cannibalism; A Typology of the African American Text; Strategies of Self-Representation: Phillis Wheatley, Equiano & the Language of Power; The Thematization & Staging of Knowledge in 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas'; A Home of Their Own: Strategies of Writing by Black Women; Mules & Women: Hurston's Poetics of Gender and the Redemptioon of the Tragic Mulatta.

Keywords: African American Literature, Black Women Writers, Literary Criticism, Gender, Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglas, Zora Neale Hurston, Race