Waiting to Exhale | Literary Precedents
Critical commentary relates McMillan's work to a trend toward African American feminist literature that arose after the early 1970s. African American women realized that they were not represented in the literature of their male counterparts. Also, a perception that the 1960s feminist movement reflected an exclusively white perspective provoked such literature as Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983). African American female writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote during the pre-World War II period, again became popular, along with the theme of...
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