By Courtney Thorsson
In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the
gender, style, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic
historical past of African American writing by means of girls. development on and departing from the Black Arts
stream, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria
Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism—practiced via their
characters as "women's work"—that defines a special modern literary movement,
difficult consciousness to the continuing relevance of country in post–Black Arts writing. Identifying
5 sorts of women's paintings as organizing, dancing, mapping, cooking, and inscribing, Thorsson
indicates how those writers reclaimed and revised cultural nationalism to hail African
America.
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