African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition

T. Walters

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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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
9781349369621
ISBN-10
1349369624
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2015
Publication date
2015-12-23
Pages
197
Dimensions
216x140x