Black American women novelists
From Library Journal In a sensitively written introduction, Werner surveys various approaches to African-American women novelists, moving from the field's dominant literary critics, including Hoggins and Littlejohn, through Du Bois and Wright, to significant insights offered by writers June Jordan and Alice Walker themselves. He also considers the important critical challenges that these writers and their critics must still face. The author's stated goals are not only historical--he documents the major works of 32 novelists--but to help identify critical issues and trends and to suggest readings of contextual information to enhance students' and critics' understanding of these works. The boo