- Translations into English, Literature, Women authors, Black authors
From all over the world, this is a collection of works from two hundred women writers of African descent, including: Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Childress, Maryse Conde, Aldo do Espirito Santo, Marita Golden, Pilar Lopez Gonzales, June Jordan, Terry McMillan, Queen of Sheba, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Phillis Weatley, and many, many others.
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Earnest, spare, classical in form and epic.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Busby, Opal Palmer Adisa
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 1093
- Publisher
- Vintage, Pantheon Books, Cape
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345382689
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