Light and Legacies

Light and Legacies

Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation

  • Autor: Lewis, Janaka Bowman
  • Editor: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781643363851
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781643363875
  • Lugar de publicación:  South Carolina , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 2023
  • Mes: Abril
  • Páginas: 174
  • Idioma: Ingles

An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literature

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.

  • Cover
  • Light and Legacies
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • 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

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