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Title: Black Women Writers As Dynamic Agents of Change: Empowering Women from Africa to America (Report)
Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
Release Date : January 22, 2007
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 275 KB

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Abstract Black women have a long history and tradition of activism that can be traced to pre-colonial Africa. Women of African descent who are writers have challenged the status quo in the cultural, political, and spiritual realms of their communities by using their craft to present women who defy traditional roles and resist strictures of oppression. Using a cross-cultural analysis, I will establish how the Senegalese writer, Mariama Ba (So Long a Letter); the African American writer, Alice Walker, (The Color Purple) and the Zimbabwean writer, J. Nozipo Maraire, (A Letter to My Daughter), all give voice to women who had long been silenced and devalued--women who, according to Zora Neale Hurston, have the status of a mule.