Description
The Anita Hill Clarence Thomas hearings serve as a point of departure to examine how six texts by black women novelists contribute to contemporary black feminist discourse. The manuscript is a comparative study of novels by both anglophone and francophone women: Mariama Bas Une Si Longue Lettre; ; Sapphires Push; Buchi Emechetas Head Above Water; Ken Buguls Le Baobab Fou; Tsitsi Dangarembgas Nervous Conditions; and Myriam Warner-Vieyras Juletane. The text challenges the assumption that African American womens writing is synonymous with black womens writing, and it approaches issues facing black women globally: lesbianism, incest, rape, prostitution, polygamy, battering, and mental illness.
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