Reading Black, Reading FeministBy: A unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that explore the rich cultural history of black women in America. Black womens writing has finally emerged as one of the most dynamic fields of American literature. Here, leading literary criticsboth male and female, black and whitelook at fiction, nonfiction, poetry, slave narratives, and autobiographies in a totally new way. In essence, they reconstruct a literary history that documents