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African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison T. Walters
African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison
T. Walters
A comparative analysis of classical revisions by eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women writers Phillis Wheatley and Pauline Hopkins and twentieth century writers Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, and Rita Dove reveals that Black women writers revise specific classical myths for artistic and political agency.
224 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 20, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780230600225 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 197 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 18 mm · 412 g |