Black women writers at work / edited by Claudia Tate ; foreword by Tillie Olsen.

Title:

ISBN:

9781642598742

9781642598407

Edition:

[New edition].

Publication Information:

Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2023.

Physical Description:

xiii, 298 pages ; 22 cm

General Note:

"First published in 1985 by Oldcastle Books, Ltd, in Harpenden, England."--Title page verso.

Edition statement from publisher introduction.

Includes index.

Contents:

Maya Angelou -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Alexis De Veaux -- Nikki Giovanni -- Kristin Hunter -- Gayl Jones -- Audre Lorde -- Toni Morrison -- Sonia Sanchez -- Ntozake Shange -- Alice Walker -- Margaret Walker -- Sherley Anne Williams.

Summary:

"Contains a collection of interviews with fourteen Black women authors." -- Publisher.

Subject Term:

Women authors, Black 20th century -- Interviews

African American authors 20th century -- Interviews

African American women authors 20th century -- Interviews

American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism

American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

American literature 20th century -- History and criticism

Authors, American 20th century -- Interviews

African American women -- Intellectual life.

Women and literature--United States.