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Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers — Barbara Christian — 1985 — Hoagland Estate

Author: Barbara Christian
Title: Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Place: New York and Oxford
Year: 1985
Edition: 1985 Pergamon paperback edition
Format: Trade paperback
Page Count: xv, 261 pages
ISBN: 0080319556
Condition: Covers show rubbing, minor edge wear, and scattered spotting. Light age toning to the photographed preliminary pages. Front cover bears a label marked “HOAGLAND,” with an additional handwritten number.
Provenance: From the estate of poet Everett Hoagland.

Barbara Christian places Black women’s writing at the center of literary inquiry in this influential collection of critical essays. Her readings explore how race, gender, cultural inheritance, and community shape both literary expression and the ways literature is understood.

With discussions of writers including Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall, Christian examines the complexity of Black women’s fictional worlds and challenges critical approaches that overlook their distinctive experiences and artistic achievements.

Published in Pergamon’s Athene Series, this volume represents an important contribution to the development of Black feminist literary criticism.

This copy comes from the estate of poet Everett Hoagland and retains a front-cover ownership label bearing his surname, preserving a visible connection to his personal teaching library.