Yearning (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Gloria Watkins
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, Culture, Language or languages, Politics, Racism, Race, Social issues, Class consciousness, Feminism, Women’s issues, Storytelling, Women, Working class, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Censorship, Dramatic criticism, Entertaining or entertainers, Women’s movement
Form and Content
Writer Bell Hooks has been in the forefront of African American feminist theory since the early 1980’s, and she continues with her groundbreaking work here. Yearning is the fourth of her feminist theory books, following Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981), Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), and Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989). She wrote her first volume while an undergraduate at Stanford University. It was the result of research she did when she found little about black women in...
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