African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition

T. Walters

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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A comparative analysis of classical revisions by eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women writers Phillis Wheatley and Pauline Hopkins and twentieth century writers Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, and Rita Dove reveals that Black women writers revise specific classical myths for artistic and political agency.

ISBN-13
9780230600225
ISBN-10
0230600220
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-12-20
Pages
197
Dimensions
216x140x