About Black Women Writers

Subject
With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, Black Women Writers brings together the many voices of women from Africa and the African Diaspora in electronic format for the first time. Facing sexism and racism at the same time, these authors have had to create their own identities and movements. This collection documents that effort from its earliest beginnings.

Presenting works from many different countries in three continents, and a variety of cultural experiences, the database gives a view of black women’s struggles through time; the challenges of a group facing issues that are, together, unique to this literature.

Sources
This release of the database includes approximately 13,000 pages of fiction, prose and poetry by 77 authors targeting writers from over 20 countries in Africa, North America, Europe and the Caribbean.

Provider
Alexander Street Press

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Created: 1/8/2008.