"The essayists featured here are members of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective"--Introduction.
Shaping Memories offers short essays by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. With contributions from such figures as novelist Paule Marshall, folklorist Daryl Cumber Dance, poets Mari Evans and Camille Dungy, essayist Ethel Morgan Smith, and scholar Maryemma Graham, the anthology provides a thorough overview of the formal concerns and thematic issues facing contemporary black women writers. Editor Joanne Veal Gabbin offers an introduction that places these writers in the context of American literature in general and African American literature.
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Shaping memories.
9781604732740
African American women authors-- 20th century, Biography.
American literature-- African American authors-- 20th century.