Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing

Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by Africana women writers. DeLinda Marzette explores the numerous ways these women writers create black female agency and vital, energizing communities.

Author: Horst Daemmrich, Delinda Marzette
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: 10/29/2013
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781433113802
ISBN10: 1433113805
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | European | German
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author
DeLinda Marzette is Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas. Her PhD is from the University of Houston, and her BA is from Dillard University in New Orleans. Her literary research examines the way in which Africana women writers negotiate issues of displacement, alienation, and cultural hybridity.

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