Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995
Cheryl Higashida
Abstract
This book examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left and developed a distinct strand of feminism. This vital yet largely overlooked feminist tradition built upon and critically retheorized the postwar Left's “nationalist internationalism,” which connected the liberation of Blacks in the United States to the liberation of Third World nations and the worldwide proletariat. Exploring a diverse range of plays, novels, essays, poetry, and reportage, the book shows how Claudia Jones, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Rosa Guy, ... More
Keywords: African American women, African American writers, women writers, Black Communist Left, feminism, nationalist internationalism, heterosexism, patriarchy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252036507 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 | DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252036507.001.0001 |
