| Synopsis: |
African American women's writing is taught worldwide. It has the ability to engage readers with values, emotions, history, rights, and issues to do with choice of form of expression, from realism and life writing to fantasy. This book engages with topical and experience-based practices of the teaching of African American women's writing worldwide. It includes invaluable essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, among others, and considers their appreciation in context in the US, UK, Australasia and the Caribbean, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It should be immensely useful for anyone teaching this popular and important body of literature at any level. |