No Crystal Stair
Visions of Race and Gender in Black Women's Fiction
Description:... "Finely reasoned, persuasive and passionate.... A definitive study. Thought-provoking and just". -- Booklist"Highly recommended". -- Library Journal
"A marvelous and much-needed literary study of the peculiar reality of black women as both black and female". -- Zillah Eisenstein, author of The Color of Gender: Reimaging Democracy
In this revised edition, the author analyzes selected novels by such writers as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Ann Petty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dorothy West, and Gayl Jones to offer a fresh vision of the roles of black women in contemporary culture. Contending that black women are "twice burdened" and "doubly invisible" because of their race and their gender, she pulls us into the lives of these fascinating characters to reveal black women as they really are -- struggling against isolation, alienation, loneliness, and victimization, all the while seeking wider horizons for their people and space for themselves as persons with aspirations and dreams.
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