Cultural Sites of Critical Insight
Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
224 pages
978-0-7914-8057-1 (ISBN)
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Explores the interplay between artistic values and social, political, and moral concerns in writings by African American and Native American women.
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Angela L. Cotten | Christa Davis Acampora
Cultural Sites of Critical Insight
Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings
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02/2007
State University of New York Press
€96.00
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Angela L. Cotten | Christa Davis Acampora
Cultural Sites of Critical Insight
Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings
Book
02/2007
State University of New York Press
€34.00
Shipment within 10-20 days
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Angela L. Cotten is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. Christa Davis Acampora is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is coeditor (with Ralph R. Acampora) of A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal.
Content
I. Introduction
1. On the "Res" and in the "Hood": Making Cultures, Leaving Legacies
Angela L. Cotten
II. Transformative Aesthetics
2. Self-Help, Indian Style? Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers of the Light, Womanist Self-Recovery, and the Politics of Transformation
AnaLouise Keating
3. Making the Awakening Hers: Phillis Wheatley and the Transposition of African Spirituality to Christian Religiosity
Elizabeth J. West
4. "Any Woman's Blues": Sherley Anne Williams and the Blues Aesthetic
Michael A. Antonucci
III. Critical Revisions
5. Through the Mirror: Re-Surfacing and Self-Articulation in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Ellen L. Arnold
6. The Red-Black Center of Alice Walker's Meridian: Asserting a Cherokee Womanist Sensibility
Barbara S. Tracy
7. Womanist Interventions in Historical Materialism
Angela L. Cotten
IV. Re(In)Fusing Feminism
8. "Both the Law and Its Transgression": Toni Morrison's Paradise and "Post"-Black Feminism
Noelle Morrissette
9. Luci Tapahonso's "Leda and the Cowboy": A Gynocratic, Navajo Response to Yeats's "Leda and the Swan"
Maggie Romigh
10. Mother Times Two: A Double Take on a Gynocentric Justice Song
Margot Reynolds
References
Contributors
Index
1. On the "Res" and in the "Hood": Making Cultures, Leaving Legacies
Angela L. Cotten
II. Transformative Aesthetics
2. Self-Help, Indian Style? Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers of the Light, Womanist Self-Recovery, and the Politics of Transformation
AnaLouise Keating
3. Making the Awakening Hers: Phillis Wheatley and the Transposition of African Spirituality to Christian Religiosity
Elizabeth J. West
4. "Any Woman's Blues": Sherley Anne Williams and the Blues Aesthetic
Michael A. Antonucci
III. Critical Revisions
5. Through the Mirror: Re-Surfacing and Self-Articulation in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Ellen L. Arnold
6. The Red-Black Center of Alice Walker's Meridian: Asserting a Cherokee Womanist Sensibility
Barbara S. Tracy
7. Womanist Interventions in Historical Materialism
Angela L. Cotten
IV. Re(In)Fusing Feminism
8. "Both the Law and Its Transgression": Toni Morrison's Paradise and "Post"-Black Feminism
Noelle Morrissette
9. Luci Tapahonso's "Leda and the Cowboy": A Gynocratic, Navajo Response to Yeats's "Leda and the Swan"
Maggie Romigh
10. Mother Times Two: A Double Take on a Gynocentric Justice Song
Margot Reynolds
References
Contributors
Index
