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Article: Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics: A Comparative Review
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- Transformations
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- September 30, 1996
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Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics: A Comparative Review
In this groundbreaking and stunning intertextual study, Tuzyline Jita Allan brings together the discourses of feminism and womanism in order to analyze texts by African, African-American; and British female writers. In chapters on Virginia Woolf, Margaret Drabble, Alice Walker, and Buchi Emecheta, Allan highlights the differences that separate these writers as she simultaneously uncovers the common concerns that bind these women together. This type of reading shows that when difference is not ignored but acknowledged, it then becomes possible to create dialogue and unity among diverse groups of people. I want to stress that Allan's book ...