The Changing Same: Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory

"The Changing Same" examines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the "Women's Era" of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the "New Black Renaissance" of the 1970s and 1980s. Deborah McDowell maps this history in readings of Emma Dunham Kelley, Frances E. W. Harper, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Sherley Anne Williams. She examines representations of slavery, sexuality, and homoeroticism; the reception of African American women's fiction in the 1980s; and African American feminist writing in the "Age of Theory."

Author: Deborah E. McDowell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 04/22/1995
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.07w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780253209269

About the Author

DEBORAH E. MCDOWELL, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is co-editor (with Arnold Rampersad) of Slavery and the Literary Imagination and author of numerous articles and essays on African American texts.

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