{"product_id":"black-internationalist-feminism-9780252036507","title":"Black Internationalist Feminism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRadicalism and Black feminism in postwar women's writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Indispensable reading for the project of intellectual decolonization of the Cold War era.\"--\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A powerful revisioning of the relationship between black feminism and nationalism.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"This unique study opens up fascinating new areas of discussion in feminism, literary studies, and political history.  Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This wonderful book makes a major contribution in rethinking the vitality and importance of the African American Left in the Cold War era. It combines insightful readings, careful research, and a grasp of the historical context that I have rarely seen.\"--James Smethurst, author of \u003ci\u003eThe African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Higashida's book, which has rescued Black feminist internationalism, will continue to be an inspiration to everyone who takes up this challenge.\" --\u003ci\u003eNational Political Science Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlack Internationalist Feminism:  Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995\u003c\/i\u003e advances our knowledge of radical Black internationalism as it accounts for the contributions of women writers who were also activists and major contributors to that formulation.\"--\u003ci\u003eLabour\/La Travail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Higashida provides a very strong and indisputable corrective to contemporary scholarly trends and a profound rethinking of established narratives of both radicalism and Black feminism. An accomplished blend of radical social history and literary analysis, this book promises to revolutionize the field.\"--Michelle Ann Stephens, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \/ Black Internationalist Feminism: a definition  1: The Negro Question, the Woman Question, and the \"Vital Link\": Histories and Institutions; 2: Lorraine Hansberry's Existentialist Routes to Black Internationalist Feminism; 3: Rosalind on the Black Star Line: Alice Childress, Black Minstrelsy, and Garveyite Drag; 4: Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the Hemispheric Woman; 5: Audre Lorde Revisited: Nationalism and Second-Wave Black Feminism  Coda: Reading Maya Angelou, Reading Black Internationalist Feminism Today  Bibliography","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400426856791,"sku":"9780252036507","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252036507.jpg?v=1730470657","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-internationalist-feminism-9780252036507","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}