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Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by the British Indian writer Salman Rushdie, first published in September 2012 by Random House. [1] Rushdie recounts his time in hiding from ongoing threats to his life . Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses had led to a widespread controversy among Muslims, prompting the 1989 fatwa issued ...
The Woman of Colour: A Tale. The Woman of Colour: A Tale is an epistolary novel published anonymously in 1808, about a biracial heiress who travels from Jamaica to England to marry according to the terms of her father's will. The book received moderate praise in three reviews at the time of its publication, [1] but was largely forgotten until a ...
Queer of color critique. Queer of color critique is an intersectional framework, grounded in Black feminism, that challenges the single-issue approach to queer theory by analyzing how power dynamics associated race, class, gender expression, sexuality, ability, culture and nationality influence the lived experiences of individuals and groups ...
Black feminism. Relatives. Beverly Smith (sister) Barbara Smith (born November 16, 1946) [1] [a] is an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in Black feminism in the United States. [2] Since the early 1970s, she has been active as a scholar, activist, critic, lecturer, author, and publisher of Black feminist ...
Published in 1983, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose is a collection composed of 36 separate pieces written by Alice Walker. The essays, articles, reviews, statements, and speeches were written between 1966 and 1982. [1] Many are based on her understanding of "womanist" theory. Walker defines "womanist" at the beginning of the ...
Title page from the revised second edition of Memoirs. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) is William Godwin's biography of his late wife Mary Wollstonecraft. Rarely published in the nineteenth century and sparingly even today, Memoirs is most often viewed as a source for information on Wollstonecraft. However ...
Despite the title, the book is a novel. It is drawn from the lives of people Johnson knew and from events in his life. Johnson's text is an example of a roman à clef. [citation needed] Plot summary. The novel begins with a frame tale in which the unnamed narrator describes the narrative that follows as "the great secret of my life."
Roderick Ferguson is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. [1] He was previously professor of African American and Gender and Women's Studies in the African American Studies Department at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His scholarship includes work on African-American literature ...