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Some Soul to Keep

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J. California Cooper - 1987

California Cooper writes with a transparent clarity and such exuberant energy that her characters leap off the page, bursting with stories they've got to tell--stories of simple people, stories of families and fate, of love and marriage, of death and the triumph of the human spirit.

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Lucille Clifton - 1987

Finalist, 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

"Clifton mythologizes herself: that is, she illuminated her surroundings and history from within in a way that casts light on much beyond."--The Women's Review of Books

Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

Hazel V. Carby - 1987

A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, and reassessing the uses of fiction in American culture.

Carby revises the history of the period of Jim Crow and Booker T. Washington, depicting a time of intense cultural and political activity by such black women writers as Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Hopkins.

Best ofBlack-Literature

1987

Some Soul to Keep

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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

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