Article: Literary passion, ideological commitment; toward a legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian women writers.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women ...
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Myriam Chancy's Searching for Safe Spaces, subtitled Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile, presents a few key anglophone authors against ... writers. Chancy defines her own perspective as "Afro-Caribbean diasporic feminism." She defends Haitian ...

Article: Hairpeace. (requirement for Afro-American women ...
African American Review;  March 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ...One day a famous white guy photographer came over to take Greta Garbo's picture, but when he got there and turned the lens in her direction, Garbo said, "O-o-o-o-o-o", this terrible hair!" I know the feeling. Sometimes it seems like all we ever talk about is hair. But it's not our fault. It's a

Article: Cheryl A. Wall. Worrying the Line: Black Women ...
African American Review;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Wall. Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition ... Literary Criticms: "[M]uch of the Afro-American literary tradition can ... tradition. In Worrying the Lane: Black Women Writers, Lineage and Literary Tradition ...

Article: Writing power: identity complexities and the exotic erotic in ...
Studies in the Literary Imagination;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile. Davies asserts ... sees Lorde's and other Afro-Caribbean women's writings ... question of identity for Afro-Caribbean/American women writers involves a self-definition ...

Article: Author reclaims her heritage in black women ...
Bay State Banner;  January 5, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... her heritage in black women writers' anthology. Turn about ... interviews she did with black women writers. If you ever wanted ... their art. The 15 black women writers she talked with for the ... also found work in the Afro-American Studies Dept ...

Article: Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries: A ...
The Modern Language Review;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Women Writers in German-Speaking Countries: A Bio ... Turkish-German, Iranian-German, and Afro-German authors (May Ayim, for example ... of currently available translations. Women Writers is organized alphabetically, not chronologically ...

Article: Re-negotiating racial identity: the challenge of migration and ...
Studies in the Literary Imagination;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... these conditions are experienced by Afro-Caribbean women specifically. In Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile, Myriam Chancy provides ... herself as a child of Jamaican "Afro-Saxons"--"colorists" who ...