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Peer reviewedSpurlin, William J. – College English, 1990
Broadens the space for a discussion of reading based in some degree of theorizing that has already occurred within the community of African-American critics and scholars. Argues that those engaged in reader-oriented approaches to literature need to intervene in the canonical debates and the critical practices of noncanonical literatures through…
Descriptors: African Literature, Black Literature, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
Toward a Diaspora Literature: Black Women Writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.
Peer reviewedWilentz, Gay – College English, 1992
Adds to the growing dialogue on diaspora literature in relation to women's writings. Examines Anglophone West African, African-American, and Caribbean women writers for hidden and not so hidden commonalities in their works. (RS)
Descriptors: African Literature, Black Literature, Females, Feminism
