Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition

Joanne M. Braxton

Temple University Press, 1989 - Literary Criticism - 242 pages

Argues for a redefinition of the genre of black American autobiography to include the images of women as well as their memoirs, reminiscences, diaries, and journals - as a corrective to both black and feminist literary criticism.

About the author

Joanne M. Braxton is Cummings Professor of American Studies and English at the College of William and Mary and author of Sometimes I think of Maryland, a collection of poems.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition
• Author: Joanne M. Braxton
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Temple University Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0877228035, 9780877228035
• Length: 242 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / African American; Literary Criticism / Women Authors