Black Women Writing Autobiography

by Joanne M. Braxton

Book Overview

Beginning with slave narratives and concluding with modern autobiography, the author deals with individual works as representing stages in a continuum and situates these works in the context of other writings by both black and white writers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877226393
• ISBN13: 9780877226390
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A story is a story is a story

Ms Braxton's compilation of essays and her own critical essays are thoughtful, intriguing, and well-written. Her work demonstrates the essential qualities that make it that, indeed, black women writing autobiography is another genre.