Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics - A Comparative Review

"A sensible, humane, clear, direct voice revealing important strengths (Walker) and weaknesses (Drabble, Emecheta) in these novelists' aesthetics concerning femaleness". -- Choice

Summary

Alice Walker’s womanist theory about black feminist identity and practice also contains a critique of white liberal feminism. This is the first in-depth study to examine issues of identity and difference within feminism by drawing on Walker’s notion of an essential black feminist consciousness.Allan

Product details

• Authors: Tuzyline Jita Allan
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1995
• EAN: 9780821411094
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1109-4
• No. of pages: 162
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories