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A review by soafricane
Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate
5.0
A brazen and valiant collage of Black women writers’ interviews that I hope returns to print soon because these are urgent times and these are urgent musings on the Black radical folkloric/literary tradition.
Selected writers from Toni Cade Bambara to Margaret Walker vitalized my heart for literature and offered concise yet generous critiques of their own work as well as that of other writers.
Portions responding to the virginal purities of white womanhood as well as the violences wreaked upon Black women by both black men and white men were swollen with emotion and utterly moored.
Personal vignettes of their interior lives pepper the interviews rather well.
It feels like being taken back to the very beginnings of literature as a domain; to all who were originally excluded from it.
Selected writers from Toni Cade Bambara to Margaret Walker vitalized my heart for literature and offered concise yet generous critiques of their own work as well as that of other writers.
Portions responding to the virginal purities of white womanhood as well as the violences wreaked upon Black women by both black men and white men were swollen with emotion and utterly moored.
Personal vignettes of their interior lives pepper the interviews rather well.
It feels like being taken back to the very beginnings of literature as a domain; to all who were originally excluded from it.