No Crystal Stair: Visions of Race and Sex in Black Women's Fiction
by Gloria Wade-Gayles
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"In this revised edition, Gloria Wade-Gayles analyzes selected novels by such writers as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dorothy West, and Gayl Jones to offer a fresh vision of the roles - and burdens - of black women in contemporary culture." "Contending that black women are "twice burdened" and "doubly invisible" because of their race and gender. Wade-Gayles pulls us into the lives of these fascinating characters to reveal black women as they really are - show more struggling against isolation, alienation, loneliness, and victimization, all the while seeking wider horizons for their people and space for themselves as persons with aspirations and dreams." "No Crystal Stair is a celebration of black women writers and their collective vision of the human condition."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Gloria Wade Gayles holds the Eminent Scholar's Endowed Chair at Spelman College and is a CASE Professor of Teaching Excellence for the state of Georgia. She is author of numerous books, including Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman's Journey Home and Rooted Against the Wind: Personal Essays, and editor of My Soul Is a Witness: African-American show more Women's Spirituality and Father Songs: Testimonies by African-American Sons and Daughters. She lives in Atlanta show less
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