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Light and legacies : stories of black girlhood and liberation / Janaka Bowman Lewis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultures of resistance seriesPublisher: Columbia, South Carolina: The University of South Carolina Press, [2023]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (164 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781643363875
  • 1643363875
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Light and legacies.DDC classification:
  • 810.9352996073075938 23/eng/20230501
LOC classification:
  • PS173.B53 L49 2023eb
  • PS173.B53
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: The gift -- Introduction: Remember: requiem for black girls -- Chapter 1. Imagine: black girlhood from play to possibility -- Chapter 2. Dream: poetics and possibilities in black girlhood aesthetics -- Chapter 3. Move: girlhood and social protest -- Interlude -- Chapter 4. Create: on radical creativity as a movement -- Chapter 5. Build: from black girl magic to afrofutures -- Epilogue: Reading play as resistance -- Appendix: A Blackgirl booklist -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "In Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary literature has long remained underexplored. Through this literary history of "Black Girl Magic," Lewis offers one of the first studies in this rapidly growing field of study. Light and Legacies poignantly showcases the activist dimensions of creative literature through work by women writers such as Toni Morrison and Toni Cade. As vectors of protest, these stories reflect historical events while also creating an enduring space of liberation and expression. The book provides didactic and reflective portrayals of the Black experience--an experience that has long been misunderstood. In a work both enlightening and personal, Lewis brilliantly weaves accounts of her own journey together with the liberating stories that shaped her and so many others" -- Provided by publisher
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Prologue: The gift -- Introduction: Remember: requiem for black girls -- Chapter 1. Imagine: black girlhood from play to possibility -- Chapter 2. Dream: poetics and possibilities in black girlhood aesthetics -- Chapter 3. Move: girlhood and social protest -- Interlude -- Chapter 4. Create: on radical creativity as a movement -- Chapter 5. Build: from black girl magic to afrofutures -- Epilogue: Reading play as resistance -- Appendix: A Blackgirl booklist -- Bibliography -- Index.

"In Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary literature has long remained underexplored. Through this literary history of "Black Girl Magic," Lewis offers one of the first studies in this rapidly growing field of study. Light and Legacies poignantly showcases the activist dimensions of creative literature through work by women writers such as Toni Morrison and Toni Cade. As vectors of protest, these stories reflect historical events while also creating an enduring space of liberation and expression. The book provides didactic and reflective portrayals of the Black experience--an experience that has long been misunderstood. In a work both enlightening and personal, Lewis brilliantly weaves accounts of her own journey together with the liberating stories that shaped her and so many others" -- Provided by publisher

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