Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 Higashida Cheryl
Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 Higashida Cheryl Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the…
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Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 Higashida Cheryl
Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left and developed a distinct strand of feminism. Black internationalist feminism critiques racist, heteronormative, and masculinist articulations of nationalism while maintaining the importance of national liberation movements for achieving Black women's social, political, and economic rights.Cheryl Higashida shows how Claudia Jones, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Rosa Guy, Audre Lorde, and Maya Angelou worked within and against established literary forms to This vital yet largely overlooked feminist tradition built upon and critically retheorized the postwar Left's "nationalist internationalism," which connected the liberation of Blacks in the United States to the liberation of Third World nations and the worldwide proletariat.