Cheryl A. Wall is professor of English at Rutgers University and author of Women of the Harlem Renaissance. She has edited five books, including Changing Our Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women and, most recently, a critical casebook on Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
"A valuable resource in the effort to define a critical
epistemology of literary matrilineage in African American
literature."
-- "African American Review"
"Artfully examines the literary genealogy of a prominent and
influential group. . . . Offers keen insights into these writers'
formal and thematic uses of other less literary sources. . . .
Impressive."
-- "Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature"
"Takes its place alongside other powerful essay collections on the
subject. . . . Conveys in intelligent and potentially quite rich
ways the process at work in summoning memories, eliciting stories,
and recasting them for new contexts."
-- "Feminist Teacher"
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