Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels

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“Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. … Identifying five forms of women’s work as organizing, dancing, mapping, cooking, and inscribing, she shows how these writers reclaimed and revised cultural nationalism to hail African America.” 

University of Virginia Press, 240 pages

 

Author
Courtney Thorsson
Publication
2013