Women's Literature from 1960 to the Present - Elliott Butler–Evans (Essay Date 1989)
ELLIOTT BUTLER–EVANS (ESSAY DATE 1989)
SOURCE: Butler–Evans, Elliott. “Enabling Discourse for Afro–American Women Writers.” In Race, Gender, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Works of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker, pp. 37–58. Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple University Press, 1989.
In the following essay, Butler–Evans writes that the rise of Black feminist discourse took a secondary role in comparison to the issues surrounding the politics of race, however, he feels the resulting Black feminist literature is more complex than that of Black nationalist or general liberal feminist writing.
The broad–based political movement that provided the context for the Black Aesthetic did not exist for Black feminist discourse. In the 1960s, race became the overriding sign for all Black oppression. This subjection of Black feminist discourse to the politics of race had a largely...
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