Table of Contents

Contents: Karla Kovalova: Preface – Cheryl A. Wall: The Writer as Critic in the Emergence of Black Feminism – Nagueyalti Warren: Home Girls and Sister Outsider: The Roots of Black Feminist Literary Criticism – Karla Kovalova: New Directions and Contradictory Impulses: The Development of Black Feminist Literary Theory – Karla Kovalova: Literary Tradition and Black Aesthetics Revisited: Black Feminist Approaches to African American Literature in the Twenty-First Century – Heike Raphael-Hernandez: From White Gaze to Black Female Resistance: Street Lit and Popular Cultural Productions in Black Feminist Theorizing – Karla Kovalova: Blackness and Whiteness Within and Without the U.S. Context: Pushing the (National) Boundaries of Black Feminist Literary Criticism – Karla Kovalova: Afterword.

About the Author

Karla Kovalova holds a Ph.D. in Modern History and Literature with emphases in African American and African studies and Women’s studies from Drew University (USA). She teaches at the English Department of the University of Ostrava, Ostrava (Czech Republic).